RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 6:28 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2013 at 6:28 am by Sword of Christ.)
(October 19, 2013 at 3:33 am)max-greece Wrote: Do you doubt for a moment that, had they won, morality would have been very different from today's?
No because Nazi morality isn't Gods morality we don't get to say what is and isn't moral we only understand it and adhere to it or not understand it and rebel against it. Otherwise you're saying we just make it up ourselves based purely on our own standards and Nazi morality is equally just as good. If we all had those moral standards then those are the moral standards we wouldn't be behaving immorally.
Quote:Moral questions would have been something like: "Can you believe there was a time when Jews were allowed to walk amongst us like normal human beings?"
Exactly the Jews would be evil sub-humans infiltrating our society and we managed to make them all disappear somewhere. We may not have known where they went exactly but that's a good thing that happened. Or at least the media would have presented it that way, we may still have question it privately.
Quote:Eventually the Nazi Empire would have collapsed - because all empires do. Whatever followed the Nazi empire would, almost by definition, have rejected that morality. Whether or not it would have come to resemble the morality of today is open to question but it appears likely it would have been a much freer approach in reaction to the strictures of the predecessor.
They were planning on a thousand year Reich and they could in theory have managed it. No need to watch the whole thing just the general idea.
In practice however I don't think God would have sustained it and it would have collapsed much like the Soviet Union did.
Quote:And where would God have been during all of this - strangely absent would be my guess - just as he was whilst 6 million were walked into concentration camps.
He was most certainly there and he always is but there is a such a thing as freewill and human sin, in this case human outright evil. God does fight against it but he does it through people who adhere to him. That's the way it works he can't do anything directly as he isn't physically present but immanent within creation as spirit as well as being utterly transcendent beyond it and sustaining it all.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.