RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 24, 2015 at 9:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 9:35 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 24, 2015 at 8:09 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If it was that much of a slippery slope, don't you think many more Christians and Jews would have the belief that God wanted them to rape?
No, because psychologically healthy people use their own, internal and natural, moral compass. Not the barbaric morality from ancient texts.
You, yourself do this, except you claim that the parts of the Bible that you admit are immoral, are the fault of imperfect humans.
You are not following a god's morality, you are following your own. You just claim it is a god's when your ancient text agrees with your own moral compass. When it doesn't agree, you just say it must not be the word of a moral god, it's man's fault for recording god's words wrong.
You are more moral than the god you worship. Almost all Christians are. Own it!
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
