RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 25, 2015 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 11:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 25, 2015 at 10:40 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I apologize for "switching." I don't believe God ever did condone rape (I don't believe that story at all), so to me, all that matters is whether people believe He did. As long as they don't believe He did, then I don't care about the details.
-and this shows..that despite your constant protestations..you -do- have a moral compass which is -not- dependent upon a god, and that you can explain what is right or wrong -in spite- of what a god may have done. You have created your own god, and simply given it the name of the OT god for added authority (as did all the christians who came before you - ask a jew). That you rationalize your rejection of a god and his actions as a rejection of horrible -fictional- stories is precisely how I conceptualize those same stories, and precisely why my rejecting your religion has nothing to do with any rejection of a god.
God never did any of that to begin with, and a "good god" never would. Sound familiar? Now, if only you'd use that very same moral compass -that you clearly possess- in the case of the NT god, and the depravity of vicarious redemption and hell......you might say something along the lines of "well, I don't think that god ever did condone that (I don't believe that story at all)". There are, of course, christians who do precisely that. They don't believe in those stories, for the same reasons that they (and you...and I) don't believe that god ever called his troops to genocide...despite the text being clear in each and every case.
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