(February 22, 2021 at 11:38 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The story of abraham and his son is instructive without the need to hear from any of those guys. It's not a story about an evil god, it's a story about virtuous people. Uniting people into a moral community is the business of a religion. In this case, asserting the virtues of sacrifice, obedience, and filial duty. The performative brinksmanship of the god in the narrative is just a convenient setup for those assertions.
What do you think of those assertions to moral truth? Are they virtuous attributes?
(even more specifically to your question - do you believe that there are faithful people who might take them to be moral truths?)
Sacrifice, obedience and duty can all be good or bad depending on context. In the context of serving a god -- mostly bad.
