"God is a fairy tale."
Prove it.
You're the one making silly claims of an invisible sky-daddy who doles out arbitrary rewards and punishments based on his own random whims that you try to interpret by reading book authored (and reauthored) over the span of several millenia. I'd have to say that the burden of proof is on your shoulders. Since we're name-calling now regarding the burden of proof...
You are the one who is assuming that a special strain of western empiricism that has come into popularity over the last 300 years is normative for all of human society and an unquestionable description of reality.
You are simply privileging a single epistemological theory over another. Go back to undergrad.
There is nothing more close-minded that a naturalist arguing ethics. Statements such as "despite the definitions that you grow up believeing, "morality" is not a static force." and "Pure science is the ultimate morality." are purely ethical assertions based on a metaphysic that denies any sort of divine or supernatural reality.
Sorry to bother you on your existential soapbox, but there are other acceptable (and even possibly true, if you can bring your epistemology to accept such a crazy notion as truth) worldviews that are held by the rest of the world (incuding America) where science/is/ governed by ethics, and ethics are governed by a metaphysic that is grounded in a transcendent morality.
Perhaps you had a bad experience with a priest, but that does not mean your naturalistic worldview is the only one in town.
How you got modded up to 3 with such flaming ignorance and trolling is proof that there is evil in the world.
FWIW, from my worldview, God gave man a command to subdue and steward nature (including science), but not to where we corrupt or usurp his moral or life-giving powers.
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Elissa, go here, if you dare...
Oh, God. And I do mean that literally.
There is nothing more close-minded that a naturalist arguing ethics. Statements such as "despite the definitions that you grow up believeing, "morality" is not a static force." and "Pure science is the ultimate morality." are purely ethical assertions based on a metaphysic that denies any sort of divine or supernatural reality.
Sorry to bother you on your existential soapbox, but there are other acceptable (and even possibly true, if you can bring your epistemology to accept such a crazy notion as truth) worldviews that are held by the rest of the world (incuding America) where science /is/ governed by ethics, and ethics are governed by a metaphysic that is grounded in a transcendent morality.
Perhaps you had a bad experience with a priest, but that does not mean your naturalistic worldview is the only one in town.
How you got modded up to 3 with such flaming ignorance and trolling is proof that there is evil in the world.
FWIW, from my worldview, God gave man a command to subdue and steward nature (including science), but not to where we corrupt or usurp his moral or life-giving powers.