(June 22, 2015 at 10:53 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Because like I have explained, I believe they have been defined by God. I don't believe they just are whatever we say they are.
All you're doing is using the term "God" as a placeholder for a moral source, which does nothing to actually address what that source is. It's the ultimate conversation stopper, a kind of reverse Pandora's Box in which you've locked away your moral compass where it can no longer be questioned; because you've defined the placeholder as being beyond accountability. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how unbelievably dangerous that can be; because now you (in a general sense, not you specifically) are no longer accountable for your own morality. I happen to think that you are better than that. It's why you've been contorting yourself over the examples of your own special book as the detestable document it truly is, desperately trying to accomodate its injunctions with your own inbuilt sense of decency.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
