Sentences with phrase «objective morality because»

objective morality, when used as «evidence» of the existence of god is classic circular reasoning; «I believe in god because of the existence of objective morality and I believe in objective morality because I believe in god.

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You can't really believe that atheists, agnostics, deists and other religions can not determine right from wrong because they do not believe in an objective morality, don't be so obtuse.

But again, if there is no objective standard of morality, then Catholic priests who molest children are not doing anything bad, because it was right in their own eyes.

But ultimately, you are embracing the latter because you are arguing an objective / absolute morality in god's immutable good nature which is a source of morality beyond god's actual control.

AG, I asked because all too many believers are constantly making the claim that we could not be moral without God, and he is necessary for morality to be objective, and that without God everyone would go around raping and murdering, and that people would not do anything good.

Their reasoning goes something like this; I believe in God because objective morality exists and the reason I believe objective morality exists is because I believe in a god who holds that morality.

Maybe its because, unlike others, Obama has tried his best to square his religion with undeniable reality, facts, objective morality, and human rights.

You claimed that the reason people object to atheism is because they don't buy objective morality.

Yes we are, because you feel for it to be worth anything at all you must have an «objective» standard, which even you don't have if you believe that your morality comes from a god.

once you concede that racism or any other major immorality could be deemed acceptable in the future, you are not talking about an objective basis for morality — because it changes.

However, if he commands it because morality is objective, morality can, obviously, exist without a god.

First, if a god commands that something is so, merely because it tickles his fancy, then it is «objective» morality simply because everyone and every thing must follow it.

Whether he commands it because morality is objective, or merely because he wants it, is irrelevant.

@JacobS: By mentioning the South's justification of slavery by invoking Jesus, you seem to be disproving Evan's point that morality is objective because of Jesus and God.

GaryM won't talk to me (because I'm immoral — presumably as determined by his «objective» standards of morality)....

So not only would it be wasteful to exchange views with them because they «deny» Gary's view of «objective morality», it just be doubly wasteful because of their deprived thinking skills.

The objectives may have no particular merit or morality, but they are the client's own, and if they fail it should be because they lacked legal merit, not because the lawyer represented them inadequately.