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How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 7:49 am
This a question for anyone who feels like their morality is in some way determined by a god.
Imagine god turned up and spoke to everyone in the world at once. He says that he wants to clear up what is moral and what isn't moral. My question is how much would you be willing to change your views, based on what he said?
For example, if he said rape was now moral, would you go along with that and have no problem with it in the future, or would you still think it is immoral? I'm hoping people would generally still think it was immoral. If you would be prepared to switch some things from immoral to moral, and vice versa, please give a few examples of those. Such as, "I think masturbation is immoral, but if god said it was moral, I'd be happy to change my mind about it."
Many thanks!
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 8:00 am
I'll prepare the crickets, sir
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 8:57 am
If I was religious I would answer that god has better things to do than to show up in front of us and dictate what we should or shouldn't do right now - But if it happened I wouldn't start raping, but god wouldn't do that anyway because he's against sins and rape is a sin, etc.
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 9:04 am
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 9:06 am
Ah we've got one vote. Wouldn't change anything. Cool. I won't ask people to identify themselves if they don't want to.
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 9:07 am
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I'd just figure it was a hallucination and wonder who slipped me the fantastic acid.
Vote no change.
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 10:50 am
I'd suppose the 'believers' hearing the word of god would not have much problem with new instructions conflicting with existing instructions since the existing instructions are already contradictory and confusing.
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2015 at 1:48 pm by robvalue.)
What I don't get is people saying that they wouldn't follow the new instructions from actual God, because they contradict the old instructions people said were from God. So... they keep the authority of the fake instructions? What authority is that?
Clearly the author is of no relevance whatsoever, it's just a matter of if they personally agree with the instructions after all.
Which is a good thing, don't get me wrong. It's how it should be.
We have someone weighing in on "would change anything he wanted". Interesting.
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RE: How flexible is your religious morality?
August 10, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(August 10, 2015 at 1:45 pm)robvalue Wrote: We have someone weighing in on "would change anything he wanted". Interesting.
Spineless ass kisser.
Relax/joke.
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