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- From: max@admin.mport.COM (Max)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: -REAL- Christians dont know god is dead
- Message-ID: <2166@admin.mport.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:28:25 GMT
- References: <01050133.ohmnd7@distant.uucp> <1993Jan25.180851.1@stsci.edu>
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- zellner@stsci.edu writes:
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- >In article <01050133.ohmnd7@distant.uucp>, edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys) writes:
-
- > > Assuming, for the sake of argument, that God says homosexuality is immoral,
- > > can you tell us why He says it's immoral?
- [..]
- > > If it's because He says so, please tell us *why* He says so. Now, we have
- > > your *real* reason for thinking that homosexuality is immoral. Unless you
- > > can explain *why* God says homosexuality is immoral, you're making your god
- > > look pretty arbitrary, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- it looks here like ed wants to know why those of us who are not believers
- in this god should tolerate gods followers conflict with homosexuality.
-
- >Of course he's arbitrary. He's God, and he's not in the slightest accountable
- >to us for his laws of good and evil, any more than he is accountable for to us
- >for the way he made the universe or the laws of physics. And we don't "make
- >god" anything; he made us, and everything else too.
-
- ben claimes that its not just a belief in god, it "TRUE".
-
- > > or, alternatively, you're making morality beyond human comprehension, which
- > > would make me wonder why we're being held accountable for things that we
- > > can't even begin to comprehend.
-
- >If you mean that God's _motives_ for creating the universe and for making the
- >laws of physics and the laws of good and evil the way he did are ultimately
- >incomprehensible, you are probably correct. But we don't need to understand
- >his motives. We only need to understand how his laws affect us. We can
- >understand how the law of gravity affects us, and we know that we can get hurt
- >if we ignore it. Some people like Newton and Einstein _understood_ gravity
- >better than other people, but the consequences of violating it are the same
- >for everybody. Likewise for God's laws of good and evil.
-
- ah, the cruxt! ben makes a huge mistake in reason: if i dont believe in
- gravity, do things fall when i drop them? yes, of course, hell, even a flat
- earther can see that! BUT if i dont believe in god, my transgression against
- gods laws have no effect on me! no god=no hell! yay!
-
- are you following this ben? god is just a beleif system, not a reflection
- of reality (if you believe in that...).
-
- > > You see, the Divine Command theory of morality doesn't work, even to fellow
- > > believers. You're going to need to fall back onto some other moral theory.
-
- >If we were talking about a man-made god, your questions would make excellent
- >sense. But Jews, Christians, and Moslims do not worship any such god. If
- >you are looking for some rationality that is more rational than God, or some
- >standards of good and evil that are higher than his standards, we specifically
- >deny that any such standards exist. Correction: HE specifically denies that
- >any such standards exist.
-
- here ben fails to realise that god is man made. if he didnt exist we
- would have to...?
-
- but i guess that THIS is really really the cruxt of the debate. it god ours
- or are we his. ho ho.
-
- actually, i spoke to god the other day, and he said
- to me that he was actualy working for the cia, and that he was on our side.
-
- silly me, and i thought he was dead. :-)
-
- > > I'll be looking forward to your *real* justification for condemning
- > > homosexuality.
-
- >Homosexuality is no different from any other sin. It's one of the things that
- >humanity is subject to. Some of us have an inclination that way, a larger
- >number toward illicit heterosexual activity, some toward gluttony, some toward
- >drunkenness, some toward gambling, some towards anger or violence, and some
- >towards physical possessions or power over our fellow men. Some have none of
- >those, and are in danger of the even greater sin of pride. But if we think
- >that discovering such an inclination within us somehow makes it "OK", we mis-
- >understand the fundamental conditions of human existence. Any one of those
- >will, apart from God's mercy, keep us eternally out of his blessings. We may
- >dislike that situation bitterly, but that's how it is.
-
- >Cheers, Ben.
-
- its a funny thing, that the muslims dont drink alcohol, as one would think
- that all these gods would have gotten together and formed some kind of
- standard. BUT,
-
- if any of the above conditions will keep us out of his blessings, then what
- happans if you dont believe in the blessings in the first place? nothing.
- unlike the "law" of gravity, when ignored shows no mercy. actually, that is
- a point in your gods favor. my gravity god dosent let the slightest
- transgression pass.
-
- but my gravity god skis!
-
- ben, im not trying to be mean, i just tend to hash over ideas like this.
- please dont take the above as some sort of personal attack. truth is, i
- really have no idea if you believe this, or are just explaning it to ed.
-
- love,
- -max
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