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Re: One of my issues (Warning: even wordier than usual)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:12:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> > If God could be empirically demonstrated, wouldn't that be better then the
> > current situation, in which he cannot? Surely more people would be "saved,"
> > and that would seem to me a fine means of determining superiority of method.
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> Ok. When you're in charge of the universe, you set up God as empirically
> verifiable, and we'll run a comparison study. Until then, the only answer
> can be "unknown", and you know that.
If you're asserting that a universe in which more people are legitimately
saved is less desirable than a universe in which fewer people are legimately
saved, then I think we have another debate on our hands.
Besides which, 'don't criticize unless you can't do better' is about as
rhetorically useful as "I'm rubber, you're glue."
> > Even with the supposed moral absolute of Christianity, few
> > people indeed lead a perfectly moral life. Pragmatically speaking, is an
> > unachievable but perfect morality any better than an achievable but
> > incomplete morality?
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> Nice trap question.
Not a trap question at all, but a reasonable result of your observation.
Your comment re: social evolution seems to suggest that at some point, with
sufficient social evolution, man can divorce morality from a higher
authority (and some people have done so already). When that happens, what's
the point of a higher authority?
Dave!
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