RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 24, 2015 at 7:33 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 7:59 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 24, 2015 at 7:22 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Now, that's interesting.
Why should YOU, an atheist, find it offensive to see an example of God calling people to a higher standard of behavior?
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It's insulting my intelligence. You say - god called people to a "higher standard of behavior". I say - primitive tribes came up with all that by themselves over the course of tens of thousands years - because it suited them at the time. You're simply trying to rationalize the fact that 3000 or so years ago your god's morals were the same as those of desert dwelling barbarians, by claiming he had to slowly introduce better morals.
He's supposed to be god, who presented himself to those people, by means of miracles and such. A few extra miracles and I'm sure they would've somehow swallowed the idea that women are not cattle.
Of course - all that can be easily explained by the conclusion you're desperately trying to avoid - god and his laws were in fact created by barbarians and as such should have no bearing on our modern society, other than as a historical curiosity.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
