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I see. So you're the one who gets to define what's fair and what's not. Okay, whatever.
No. It's human, not to say humanist, morality. That what even the religious believers use to evaluate the good or bad in the Bible (at least) and credit to good to God and blame the bad on someone else. We all (other than the 'God can do as he likes' apologists) do it using human moral codes, why shouldn't he?
What isn't fair is posting about your own personal hypothesis in threads unrelated to that topic.
at least he is open and honest about his belief.
Some keep it hidden to keep intentions hidden. They know that when the intentions are out in the light it weakens their position. Life gets unfair when people base a world view on that. It causes far more suffering than being open and honest.
I see. So you're the one who gets to define what's fair and what's not. Okay, whatever.
I'm no fan of his posts and have criticized them often, but really each person does get to define what is fair or not fair. It's a value judgement, and people obviously aren't going to agree on "fairness".
What isn't fair is posting about your own personal hypothesis in threads unrelated to that topic.
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
Please explain this distinction. Everyone atheist and theist alike here are using THEIR beliefs about God and applying them to the topics. How is what I am doing somehow different other than my beliefs are not ad populum?
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My personal hypothesis is about God. My beliefs are about God. How on earth can they be off-topic in the R&S forum where everyone applies their beliefs about God to the topics????
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My personal hypothesis is about God. My beliefs are about God. How on earth can they be off-topic in the R&S forum where everyone applies their beliefs about God to the topics????
And that is not appropriate as a comment in every thread. For example, this one.
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My personal hypothesis is about God. My beliefs are about God. How on earth can they be off-topic in the R&S forum where everyone applies their beliefs about God to the topics????
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Originally Posted by mensaguy
And that is not appropriate as a comment in every thread. For example, this one.
You brought it up in this thread. I just asked for clarification.
If thee was a loving all-powerful god in charge, it would be.
Fairness is intrinsic to goodness.
Either gods aren't good, or they just plain aren't (don't exist).
"Good" is subjective.
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