Katazia, atrocious is a reletive term, so if democracy is the best system, it's not atrocious. And the whole point of democracy is that it includes...
You mean, whether He is enforcing His will contrary to our will, and what right He has to do so - but being a dictator is not about oppression, it's...
Put it to a referendum, for example! The important thing is that people agree to obey the law even if they don't like it - the argument being that if...
Right, ready again! I seek to apply my principles universally as well - otherwise they wouldn't be principles, but just gut feelings of how to act...
Short one this time, because I want to get the fundamentals cleared up - none of that last post tackled the issue of ignorance: given that you cannot...
Jenyar, you still don't get what I mean about acting based on ignorance. We believe things that makes sense to us - we get the information, put it...
What I meant was our inability to recognise the 'truth'. You can never 'know' that your God actually exists - you have decided to trust that He does...
Sorry about the delay. This is not my morality at all - remember that I am not dictating any specific rules, but rather reminding you of your human...
Grrr - I specifically said in my last post that I do not want morality to rest on instinct alone. Reason is the means to realising your desires by...
I meant we evolved the concept and need of morality, not the individual moral rules themselves (although some are pretty necessary). Humans would...
If they experience good results from doing something, does that always make it good? We do know there's no God - you just don't believe it. There's...
SnakeLord, I sort of agree with many of your objections, but they're irrelevant here. In this discussion, forget about floods and stonings and focus...
SnakeLord, feel free to butt in, but your post wasn't relevant to this discussion, and you seem to miss the point anyway. Heck, even I could probably...
Can't you see that its the other way around? You know someone, then you develop a healthy relationship with them. The terms exist only to the...
Right, TB. So I guess I'll just have to 'have faith' that something whose existence is logically impossible exists. Of course, I have no reason to,...
I'm not trying to be dense - the thing is, we understand the world in radically different ways. Its really interesting. Its not just facts we...
Can God do anything and everything, or not? If so, He must be omnipotent. Omnipotence means that you are, in effect, everything, because there is...
Guilty of what? Not believing in something that makes no sense? As with the technician and his intelligent robots, the creator has a responsibility...
If He is less than omnipotent, that's fine, most Christians seem to think He is. No, religion and science are two diametrically opposed ways of...
But acting requires not acting at another time. Creation likewise means you are not creating... not creating... then you suddenly create. When you...
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