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Well, all morality is obligation. The word "ought" is actually a contraction of the expression "owe it." So to say somebody (morally) "ought" to do something is to say they morally "owe it" to do it. You say that people may "help" each other. But yo...

Oh. So you think of it merely as a practical strategy, not a moral imperative -- just as a handy way for getting something for yourself? :shock: But if somebody said to you, "I don't feel like helping you," that wouldn't make them a bad or immoral person? They don't actually have a duty t...

Immanuel Can - I'm interested in knowing why it is controversial claiming the Bible is the revelation by humans, not the revelation from God? How do you know it is the revelation from God, rather than the mind playing tricks on the scribes (or worse, the scribes were simply good at manipulating thei...

Well, that's controversial. It's by no means clear that "days" means "24-hour periods," particularly when there was no Sun, Moon or Stars to assess such a thing by. So you'd have be not just a strict literalist, but beyond that, a willful readier-into the narrative to insist on ...

Perhaps it is time to view God not as an omnipotent being, but rather as a personification of everything good about humankind, which we should strive to achieve one day. Instead of placing God above the universe/multiverse, maybe God should simply be a collection of all the good virtues that makes ...

Science and religion often clash because religious teachings has some statements about the world which scientists cannot observe, actually scientists can tell that a lot of the claims in the religious teachings are false. There are a lot of problems with religious teachings: First of all, there is t...

Democracy is a pre-condition for liberty, but only in theory. In theory, democrats (people who believe in democracy, no, I'm not refering to any specific political party here) reason that most people want as much happiness in their lives as possible and therefore the majority of the common people wa...

Sean Carroll is pretty good at knowing stuff and indeed explaining stuff, so don't get me wrong when I suggest parallel universes being created at the point of any binary decision - indeed infinitely - is indeed bollocks. Understand there would also include a universe where you are burning in hell ...

It's only a thought experiment, which cannot be true since it brakes the most simple and fundamental understanding of the universe; matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Given an infinite number of events in any given moment the "many worlds hypothesis Demands that an infinite numb...

Why don't we re-think the Many World's Intepretation to a fit a deterministic universe? According to the Many Worlds-interpretation, the universal wave function splits the universe into two branches for every event. By re-thinking it, I mean we live in one branch, and we can trace it all way back t...

Why don't we re-think the Many World's Intepretation to a fit a deterministic universe? According to the Many Worlds-interpretation, the universal wave function splits the universe into two branches for every event. By re-thinking it, I mean we live in one branch, and we can trace it all way back to...

There's also a third possibility: God did not create the universe. God - the benevolent, is not the same as God - the creator. In other words, the Devil is not the fallen angel, the Devil is our creator-deity and God - the savior, is a rebel who fell from Heaven after revolting against the evil crea...

Could it be, that God did not create the universe? Could it be that humans invented God, and God in turn shaped mankind in his image?

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:38 pm My god, if he gave a shit, would say if evil bothers you, stop doin' it

Maybe God had no choice?

So you believe in a God that doesn't intervene? Why not just dispense with the God belief altogether? Of what use is it to posit the existence of an entity that doesn't do anything, let alone worship it if it's to no end. Good question, which I can answer, but I don't want to for personal reasons. ...