Recent content by RedYellow

I sense my conversation with Joseph has proceeded as far as it will go, so I'm just gonna lay out my idea of how morality in the real world works. Firstly, we are hands down the most socially complex creatures on the planet, this isn't something we decided to be, it's just what we are. Our...

And has this always been the same? Don't you think people knew in their hearts it was right to conquer and kill? You are just being vague and inconsistent here. People have all sorts of feelings in their hearts, from compassion to pure, black hatred. Again, wrong. Subjective means a subject is...

Except we can judge a moral law by other means, like how useful it is to us. You are clearly the one who is confused: You say that moral law is good, but we can't know good without moral law. This is circular reasoning, you can't judge a moral law until you introduce a 'subject.' If the subject...

Is the Moral Law itself good or bad, Joseph? Nothing destroys meaning more than an objective law. A Law is an 'IS' statement. You can only get an 'OUGHT' statement from a qualifier, like 'IF.' IE, I OUGHT not murder, IF I want to be the kind of person I would want to be surrounded by. What...

The only true test of morality comes from the absence of any official mandate, punishment or reward; if someone chooses to have morals on their own, then you know it comes from the heart alone. Theists really have only one moral: Do what you are told.

It's just so funny to me how they never see the obvious- the fact that they have to systematically make a case for creation, coupled with their belief that God wants people to know evolution isn't true but leaves it up to people who have no respect in science. I think I've found the only...

Well, I never said I though babies believe in god, I just think that the way our minds are set up provides a strong context for god belief to be embedded via cultural reinforcement. Immediate experience does shape our perception, but only to the extent it serves us in our daily lives. Experience...

I think the ability to remove ourselves from our observations is the starting point to ending belief. The ability to look at reality objectively, rather than as a narrative which is specifically tailored to our experience. We have to get past the god by seeing it as a projection of our own ego.

There's no one reason people believe in god, it's got to be a rich tapestry of things, by-products of being human. Superstition, agency projection, awareness and fear of mortality, desire for leadership, desire for group solidarity, guilt complex. The real question would be how humans have...

This is an actual argument I've encountered a few times.

Gee I don't know, I guess creationism wins finally. Looks like this is the one thing every biologist must have missed, and now we know we were wrong. Even though we can demonstrate all mechanisms necessary for evolution to occur, THIS argument proves that the best explanation for the diversity...

I think that religion can be good for the world. It may even be necessary in the sense that we can't expect everybody to be able to view the world completely objectively overnight, and still be able to derive meaning and motivation from it. And spiritual traditions are an artful way of dressing...

Re: Every politician I disagree with IS Adolf Hitler, litera And to clarify, as much as I hated G W Bush, I still thought comparing him to Hitler was stupid.(Hitler was smarter) I agree that the problem is people who lack perspective. People don't know how good they have it compared to just a...

I just have to vent this here, and see if anyone else comes across this type of thing. The other day I was walking with my family in our neighborhood, which is most inhabited by socially relaxed, liberal leaning folk. But every now and then we have to hurry past Mormons trying to tell us the...

^ I see where you're coming from as well, though I think giving them the option of a non-murder and rape God world lets them escape on the basis that they want both morality, AND all the other things God supposedly offers like a purpose to life, eternal life, etc. I offer them all of those...