(October 11, 2020 at 1:29 pm)runewell Wrote:(October 11, 2020 at 2:43 am)Sal Wrote: If you find yourself unable to determine what is right because you lack the moral compass for it (your little notion of recusing yourself, as if it was some legality or something), then by what metric do you determine that god is good™?
Did the Germans have a moral compass when they slaughtered the Jews?
Yes.
(October 11, 2020 at 1:29 pm)runewell Wrote: People can do what they think is right or what they want to be right, but that doesn't make it right.
Gee, you think?
(October 11, 2020 at 1:29 pm)runewell Wrote: You bring up an important point, by what metric is good defined? If there is no standard of right or wrong and we do as we see fit, there won't be much left to discuss except when differing opinions on what is good eventually clash.
Pathetic dodge. The question remains, as a follow-up from that you recuse (your word, not mine) from using any sense of morality to your faith. Again, without morality on what metric do you determine that god is good™?
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