RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 8, 2019 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2019 at 7:23 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(April 8, 2019 at 6:31 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(April 8, 2019 at 5:54 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: In what ways does it make less sense?
For one it makes less sense of our moral perceptions, such as our perception of torturing innocent babies just for fun as truly wrong, and not wrong like that dress doesn’t go with those shoes.
No, it doesn’t. There are perfectly natural, evolutionarily-grounded explainations for why we feel love for babies. It’s really not a brain bruster as to why living things care for their offspring. It makes a lot more sense than the explanation: “We love babies because some god programmed us to love them, because he wants us to. Because...well, I’ve never seen him, so I’m not really sure about any of his reasons.” Also, let’s not forget that entire groups of people routinely murdered babies in the name of sacrifice to their gods. So I guess this universal understanding that harming babies is not so universal after all.
Quote:It makes less sense of our desire for meaning, truth, goodness, etc..
How so?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.