RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2013 at 1:25 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
(October 18, 2013 at 4:38 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you're going to seriously reject the existence of God or a purpose to the universe/life you will have to face the consequences of the truth which is going to be a little bit nihilistic whether you like it or not.
As I demonstrated earlier, you can be just as nihilistic even if you believe God exists.
Further, the idea of a purpose to the universe would be irrelevant. For it to matter, such an externally imposed purpose would have to conform to your preferences.
And by your own belief, God is a nihilist. He was no created and thus cannot, by definition, have an externally imbued purpose. And you cannot claim that God gives himself purpose because then that's special pleading, since you don't grant that people can create their own purpose.
In other words - to paraphrase the philosopher Shelly Kagan - the non-existence of cosmic purpose has no bearing on the existence of immediate purpose and value.
QED.
