Problem number 1 - Advocating moral relativism, then in the next sentence, criticizing the morality in the OT. Morality can either be objective or subjective. What does subjective mean? It means it is based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. Items such as movies, clothes, food, drinks, ice cream, holiday destinations, music, woman, men, etc etc are ALL subjective. An item that is in the basket of subjective, does not trigger a right or wrong associated with it. For example, if you see someone enjoying a movie or meal, which you do dislike, you dont tell them that they are wrong in enjoying the movie or meal. One cannot be right or wrong for having a taste or opinion that is branded subjective. Now, if you want to throw morality in this same basket as above, then you cannot trigger a right or wrong associated with it. It will be a non sequitur. You can have an opinion, sure, but you are not right or wrong. Ie, I hate olives, if someone is in front of me eating olives, the only thing I can say is, yuck, I hate olives, but I can never say the person eating olives is wrong for enjoying eating olives. Is it possible to have a debate about the taste of olives? Of course not, no one is right, no is wrong. If you want to throw morality in the above basket, THEN YOU HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR APPROACH. The biggest contradiction from Atheists here is, in one sentence they argue morality is relative or subjective. Fine. But in the next sentence, they argue that the morality in the OT is wrong or evil, or bad. It is just a personal opinion, you are NOT right or WRONG, it is a neutral statement, so why say it? Its like arguing olives are better tasting than apples. Who is going to win? What point are you trying to make? You cannot. Can you not see the contradictions? You need to act CONSISTENT with your view. Yet, you say something, then in the next sentence, contradict your view OR dont act consistent with it. This indicates one of 2 things. People havent really thought about their atheism that hard and what its implications are OR they dont really believe what they are arguing. Otherwise, we wouldnt see this contradictory nature.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:38:22 +0000
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