Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Some people claim that their god is the author of my conscience.
The claim, of course, is absurd. These people worship a god who supposedly flooded the world and commanded genocide so that his "chosen people" could take over land from those already living there. My conscience tells me that those are evil acts. There might exist some god that is the author of my conscience. But it is certainly not that one.
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I love it when Christians use faith to argue the validity of their faith.
IMHO, their world view truly is corrupt. There might be nice bits we can pick and choose from it, such as loving thy neighbor et al. The rest of it fails to provide effective tools for dealing with Christian misunderstanding. Two Christians can haver radically different ideas of what something is meant by a scriptural passage, and both point to the Bible as the source for their understanding.
Both are correct. The Bible IS their source, and it DOES produce contradictions when extrapolated to the real world.
Either God created your conscience (and thus your innate sense of morality) or he gave you free will to perceive the world and make value judgments on your own. Both of these ideas come from the Bible, and Christians point to that books to support them. Of course, finding this support credible means you must first belioeve the Bible to be an authority on such matters - and if you don't, well....
Christians do not have an objective source for morality or conscience, and certainly not for the laws of logic. That they continue to claim otherwise, and then wonder why people in the audience are laughing, is an endless source of entertainment and frustration for me...
EDIT: reposted to change the bolded word...
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