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Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2013 at 12:26 pm by Lemonvariable72.)
I'm wondering, if our morals are from god and imbued by him, then what imbued his morals?
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RE: Where goes god gewt his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 12:28 pm
What are you gewtting on about? God has no morals, as he's a collective hallucination!
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RE: Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 12:39 pm
If the biblical god exists then it is clear he doesn't have morals. Only commandments for humans.
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RE: Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 12:43 pm
I've heard some tell me that morality, for god, is just a part of his nature, like it's bound into him at some fundamental level. To me, that always seemed like another way of stopping the conversation; christians seem to want to put a full stop on investigation while explaining absolutely nothing with their purported answer.
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RE: Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 1:13 pm
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Given the usual Christian/Muslim response to the Euthyphro Dilemma, the likely answer will be that God doesn't 'get' his morality from any other thing than himself. Rather, God is the Good itself. Oh boy, monotheists copyinf from Plato; who'd of thunk it?
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RE: Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm
God gets special pleading. His morals come from him being the most moral being ever. You have to use presuppositionalism to make sense of it.
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RE: Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 3:05 pm
If only Christians understood (and I'm sure they do) how offensive the whole "all morals come from God" idea is, since it's basically saying that if you don't believe and worship God then you are immoral, or if you happen to be a moral atheist then you're actually following God and aren't a true atheist.
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RE: Where goes god get his morality from?
September 25, 2013 at 3:21 pm
God got his morals from the people who made him up.
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