tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732427.post6838994581840799540..comments2023-06-23T10:26:21.277+02:00Comments on Memoirs of an ex-Christian: With God, anything is permissibleKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752824290056143050noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732427.post-33336941024932450662009-03-12T14:28:00.000+02:002009-03-12T14:28:00.000+02:00I think you should open a blog at 24.com. They wil...I think you should open a blog at 24.com. They will stone you mate. :)Spear The Almightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234873551632663281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732427.post-16896825345068806102009-03-10T19:50:00.000+02:002009-03-10T19:50:00.000+02:00There's an interesting post with a similar angle h...There's an interesting post with a similar angle <A HREF="http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-on-bible-protecting-isaac-from.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> about what the "bible says" and morality, with a nice tie in to the U.S. president.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732427.post-624973743333045782009-03-09T21:22:00.000+02:002009-03-09T21:22:00.000+02:00I picked up that book at the library yesterday. Pi...I picked up that book at the library yesterday. Picked it up and put it back again, a bit too hefty for me right now, and too much else to read.<BR/><BR/>I have thought about it this way; what would I do if I heard a message like that from God, to kill my firstborn son or commit genocide? What would it take for me to act on it? It is fine academically to say that if God is God and that's what he commands, that's fine. But in real life, what does that look like? A person has to have prior morals to measure what they think to be God's voice, right? It just gets back to who do you think God is. <BR/><BR/>Conservative christians will tell you that, yes, God is a God who commands genocide, because he is holy, and yes, you have to accept that. I say that is meaningless, just a way to justify attributing modern-day absolute authority to the ancient texts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17732427.post-45238186182897375132009-03-09T17:01:00.000+02:002009-03-09T17:01:00.000+02:00I always found that thread of critique to be poor....I always found that thread of critique to be poor. It ignores the fact that if God exists, s/he/it would define morality. Being that the God created and formed the rules of the universe, it would make sense for the God to also govern the rules of the immaterial which God conceivably also made.<BR/><BR/>What one needs to examine instead is contradictions in the God nature, in the God's words. That makes a more conducive argument than trying to say God's commands can contradict the very morality the God created. <BR/><BR/>Instead, for example, examine if God says "I am good and do only good all the time throughout time." and "this is not good." and God either does it or commands it. That is an argument. <BR/><BR/>Although such an argument would be an argument against a specific religion's God. It is no argument concerning a god who exists.Nikeyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00299763227732382675noreply@blogger.com