RE: Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position
March 5, 2020 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2020 at 3:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 5, 2020 at 11:58 am)Klorophyll Wrote: Of course. Although I find your question slightly ill-formed. God is morality, in a way.
Whatever that means. It's one thing to derive a moral system from a magic book, or from beliefs about some silly god, but that's not morality in any way that matters to me.
Morality
-principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
-a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society
-the extent to which an action is right or wrong.
As an aside, has it ever occurred to you that you can place your god and your beliefs about the world in an untenable position with a string of trivial false dichotomies?
Either magic book is right or there is no god?
Either there is a god or there is no morality?
Don't you think it might be prudent to allow for simple human error when it comes to a book? If some scribe gets a jot or a tittle wrong god's very existence is somehow on the line? I think we can safely set the first proposition aside as ludicrous. The second touches on your personal view of the moral field. If it turned out that we lived in a world with no god you would suddenly lose all ethical sense, and the world would be morally unintelligible? I would be very interested to see how you complete this sentence.
In a world with a god, skullfucking your neighbors' kid is wrong.
In a world without a god, skullfucking your neighbors' kid is __________________.
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