RE: Morality from God
March 11, 2012 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2012 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then perhaps you can better appreciate my anti-theism, starting from our new common ground with that answer? If we are to believe the stories, god has commanded atrocities. I am thankful that they are just stories, but I take issue with people who smile and extoll the virtues of those who carried out such orders. This is why my morality, personally, does not stem from god, except inasmuch as the judaic god is an inverse picture of morality. I could learn much about what not to do by way of it's example. I am similarly suspicious that if I had such power at my disposal, I would be no better, no different. I would probably try, I'd give it a good run, but I'd shaft somebody somewhere horribly. The difference here, is that I am only human, I am not omni-anything. Wouldn't you expect more from a deity? In the same way that you would seriously doubt whether or not a god actually commanded you to rape your daughter?
What I'm getting at, to make a long story short, is that it just might be possible that your morality originates from within yourself, and you have extended this self-owned and cultivated morality (an admirable one btw) over your concept of what a god is, or would do, etc.
What I'm getting at, to make a long story short, is that it just might be possible that your morality originates from within yourself, and you have extended this self-owned and cultivated morality (an admirable one btw) over your concept of what a god is, or would do, etc.
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