RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 22, 2013 at 10:58 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2013 at 11:01 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
(October 22, 2013 at 9:55 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: No. You first. It's a common forum trick by atheists to turn the question back at the Christian rather than do the heavy lifting of defending your own position.
Actually, this is a common theist and specifically Christian tactic and unlike you I'll explain why. Christians who get into philosophy - and even those whom become apologists - will stack the metaphysical deck, so to speak. This is apparent in both your responses to me, and other Christian teist arguments, especially the Moral Argument. You assume (or assert without support) that without God, X couldn't be the case, and never defend that. Similarly, to say "Well, on naturalism how do you account for meaning? How can atoms be *about* anything?" This assumes that their own position accounts for this problem without defending it. How can a secondary substance and/or the interaction between the two proposed substances be *about* anything would appear to be just as much a problem for a substance dualist as it is apparently for a naturalist.
Lastly, as I already stated I myself am not actually familiar with this topic.