All Blog Posts Tagged 'Moral' (5)

Let's assume for argument's sake that God created everything as Genesis states.  We shall consider Genesis to be perfectly accurate.  The problems encountered are far greater than incongruence with reality.

If God has always existed, is all-good and is the origin of everything, I have some questions.  

Where does evil come from?  If God is to be considered the origin of everything/everyone, then God somehow created evil.  If God is omniscient, he did so intentionally.  Further,…

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At Virginia Tech, on Wednesday evening March 21, there was a debate on the question "Does God Probably Exist?" I wanted to post comments on two of the arguments given.

One argument given was the "fine-tuning argument". One of the debaters was studying high-level academic philosophy, and they stated it thus:

Given the fine-tuning evidence, a life-permitting Universe (LPM) is very, very epistemically unlikely under the non-existence of a fine-tuner, and is not unlikely if a…

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Sam Harris on 'The Last Word' with Lawrence O'Donnell re: Islamophobia

Atheism asserts the independence of the individual. It denies the existence of a power, natural or supernatural, which determines human life. For a long time, people have been supposing that their lives are determined by god, fate or natural law. But the daily experience of free will, disproves the existence of any determining factor.



Yet people have believed in the existence of a god etc., on account of their slave-mindedness. Slave-mind seeks a prop, and an early prop it took to… Continue

Text interesting about Morality and Religion, for sure will bring great clarity to many here in this community.



Moral, ethical and RELIGION

Professor: Dr. Marcos de Almeida

There may be a morality without religion? You must have a

god or gods, so that it becomes indispensable to morality? The fact

that some people are not religious, the ability to be, automatically, moral?

And if the answer to these questions require the belief in one god, what… Continue