RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 25, 2017 at 8:48 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2017 at 8:49 pm by Astonished.)
Dude...if killing is objectively wrong, meaning always and in all cases across time regardless of who commits the act...and the person espousing this objective morality believes it comes from a deity that does exactly that thing so many times in so many ways...then doesn't that one singular example of that failure to be objective (BY DEFINITION) negate the entire idea of objective morality altogether? I really don't see how you can rationalize that. Otherwise it just becomes a 'do as I say, not as I do' appeal to authority and that's a recipe for immorality, not least because of how things being commanded need to be interpreted.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
