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Let's try this again. Here are three statements. 1. There is one God. 2. There are multiple/many gods. 3. There are not gods, and not God. These exhaust the possibilities, rationally speaking. There are no more. And they are, as per Aristotle, genuinely contradictory, genuinely opposite. Now, how m...

I've seen it expressed here, that if person A has beliefs about the divine, and person B has beliefs about the divine, and these beliefs are mutually contradictory, the following is certain ......... both can be false, one can be false and the other true, but both cannot be true. Really? Let me tel...

OK, then to clarify -- I am NOT using "secular society" in that sense. That sense makes no sense in the context of saying no human societies lack perceptions of the divine/spiritual. Okay, good...because that wouldn't really make sense, would it? It's like the people who say "Sociali...

You might want to look up France and Laisite. Note the secularist legislation in northern E.U. of late in response to mostly Muslim excesses. Sorry, don't understand at all ----- if a society declares by law Laisite, that presumes there is something from which to separate the state from. Such laws ...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2026 9:06 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2026 8:42 pm Of course. Did it need stating?

It needs emphasizing.

Not really. I've been completely open about that.

Last answer: no, it's the intrinsic moral nature of the world, as designed by God. Things are either being used as He intended when he made them, or abused as He did not. That is, of course, the answer by way of Christian understanding. Of course. Did it need stating? Christianity inherits from Jud...

You've referred to Aristotle, IC That presumably means you've seen him discuss ethics and morality. Did he seem to be incoherent and/or inconsistent even though not basing on "given by the gods"? If not, then why are you arguing that a modern "secularist" cannot do so. Oh, I don...

God's opinion that buggery is evil is not checked by looking at the act itself and observing a factual quality of badness,... That's about the dumbest objection I've ever heard. Congratulations. I mean it. It's really spectacular. I'm almost breath-taken by how little thought it must have take to g...

I guess I need to repeat the question, because you are not seeing that two times are involved. You are trying to answer "but what if he/she later truly repents at some later time?" No. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that there are only two cases: somebody who genuinely has repented of hi...

So you chose what seemed most reasonable to you. Can the same be said of people who choose other religions or belief systems? I mean, to you there's no other reasonable choice than believing the Bible. What if someone else feels drawn to Buddhism or Taoism but not the Bible? What do you make of tha...

God's opinion that buggery is evil is not checked by looking at the act itself and observing a factual quality of badness,... That's about the dumbest objection I've ever heard. Congratulations. I mean it. It's really spectacular. I'm almost breath-taken by how little thought it must have take to g...

That's metaphysically impossible. Opinions are subjective by definition. No, opinions, like statements of fact, can be true or false. That is, a statement made by a subject ("subjective") can be true ("objectively"). But if a statement is ONLY "subjective," then it mea...

P2: Evil is defined by God's subjective opinion You'll find that God has no opinions that are merely "subjective." You'll find they're all "objective" as well. That's the distinct advantage of having been the Creator...or one of the advantages. That's metaphysically impossible. ...

A question that started at a family dinner and won't leave me alone. My brother in law, 52 and recently divorced, told us quite calmly that he talks to an AI companion every evening. It remembers his week, asks after his daughter by name, and he says the conversations are the most attentive he's ha...

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2026 6:01 pm P2: Evil is defined by God's subjective opinion

You'll find that God has no opinions that are merely "subjective." You'll find they're all "objective" as well. That's the distinct advantage of having been the Creator...or one of the advantages.