My views on objective morality

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Do you read what you type?

Is it not a fact that some babies die which do not die by the fault of any living person?  This either means that God is not good, God is not powerful enough to save babies, or God does not in fact share your definition of goodness.  Are you going to tell us that little dead babies are going to live out eternity as angels?  If so, with what personality?  What will replace the egoes which they never had the chance to develop?

Clothing the naked?  The Bible specifically tells Jesus followers not to worry about clothes, because they will be clothed by God.  So look at the freezing poor.  Where are the clothes that God promised?

I don't care much that you don't believe in the Bible.  But if you think God is both powerful and good, then there is a world full of evidence which contradicts you.  Or, to be blunt, you are more interested in maintaining your happy beliefs than in embracing reality.  Nothing but your imagination supports your Pollyanna world view.

Too bad Catholics don't follow their bibles

I remember for the last few years of my Christian walk, I thought I could maintain my "relationship with Jesus" while at the same time ignoring the horrid things the god of the bible did to people. God is greater than the bible, I told myself. This worked for a while, but I soon realized that without the bible, I had no foundation on which to believe in Jesus.

To believe in the god of the beatitudes and reject the god of the Pentateuch is to make up a god. How then does this personal god provide anything that could be called objective?

Let's look at this on a chart.

It's objective morality when I'm good because the god I choose to believe in tells me to do the things I choose to do.

It's not objective if I only do good because reason tells me that being god is better for me and everyone.

If your belief in god enjoins you to be good. wonderful. As long as you're good . fine. But if your belief does not allow you to accept the fact that other people do not need to believe in god in order to be good, then you will always be at logger heads with reality.