Where are your tithes going?
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Who cares?Zakath said:
Zakath, you are a moral relativist!
According to you determining what is moral is relative to who is performing the action.
Therefore, if you consider "unnecessarily injuring others" immoral on what basis can you determine that "unnecessarily injuring others" is immoral for someone else?
What makes you right and others wrong?
Oh I understand it allright.
Believe me I understand it. :rotfl:
I can condemn the immorality of the church.Granite said:
Can you?
And if so, based on what?
Are you a moral relativist?fool said:
I think it is important to remind you of this fact when you start threads like this accusing others of moral wrongs.Zakath said:
On what basis do can you condemn the immorality of others?
What makes your version of morality more "right" than those that you accuse?
Knight said:
Uh, yeah, Knight, I can. And I do. You have yet to, oddly enough, on this thread anyhow.
"First do no harm" seems to be a good place to start. Behavior that injures others does not benefit society as a whole which is why theft, rape, and murder have been outlawed for eons. Mankind does not need an instruction manual to figure out the order collapses when anything goes. Civilization by nature is the enemy of anarchy and humanity has always understood that.
What you people don't seem to understand is the survival mechanism of mankind: it's called self-preservation. I do unto others as they'd do unto me because it's EASIER that way and better that way. It's simplistic and childish to think the human race still needs the basics spelled out for them, especially when it's intolerant power-hungry philistines who are insisting on telling us the "right" way to live.
Thanks but no thanks.
Based on the existence of a righteous God.Zakath said:
There's mine, where's yours?
Here is the rub, one of us (that would be you) claims that morality only exists in the mind of each one of us. So you might say to yourself "I am not going to moleste little kids" but you have no right to tell others that child molestation is wrong because you have conceded that morality is relative to each of us.
I do not claim morality is relative.
This IS the topic!Zakath said:
A moral relativist (that would be you) is making a claim that others are committing immorality.
That, my moral relativist friend (that would be you) is the relevant topic.
You can disagree that a righteous God exists, that is your prerogative.Granite said:
And if you go through life without making claims of immorality you will remain consistent.