thoughts on this statement by kyle? its clear that the majority of atheists dont leave their faith for scientific reasons, but moral reasons. the belief in a good higher than God appears to be the pathos made logos, and a new faith lives in this ideal, often expressed politically. this appears to be a platonic repudiation of monotheism, since the platonic monad is impersonal. God cannot also be the good, since if God decides what is good he is beyond it. thus, God must be subordinate to his own edict. plato writes about this in "euthyphro" and aquinas also writes about it, claiming that while God makes the law, his inherent goodness forces him to abide by it. the contradiction is setting conditions against the unconditional; can God create a stone he cannot lift? according to aquinas, yes. such as epicurus says, then he is not God… the atheist is merely a philosopher in birth (both socrates and christians were accused of being atheists in their persecution).
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That's it, he's going up against the wall for being an objective moralist chud.
>>729511This.
Christians say God is the manifestation of Good.
Yet they also justify God telling the Hebrews to kill children of pagans when said children were victims of ritual sacrifice.
God also told Israelites to kill non-virgin women of the nations they were invading
This is why I say that an Absolute God is not compatible with “ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE “ because then it wolf imply that He can violate his own ethics on a whim
>>729517Then by your own description it isn't objctive and choosing to call it so with a caveat is just a contradiction. It is relative to a certain time and place with certain conditions.
>>729565It's not objective in a trans historical sense. It's an objective social reality, in the same way you can say someone is objectively guilty of murder according to a set of laws, even though the laws are somewhat arbitrarily defined.