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Are Satanic Temple’s Seven Tenets Morally Superior To Ten Commandments?

Strawman. The subject was God, who you claim doesn't exist but for which you're bankrupt in backing up your claim.

God comes into the class of imaginary beings. Go ahead and show us how to prove that fairies don't exist and then we will apply your method to gods.
 
Don't confuse intelligence with common sense and wisdom. Bill Clinton was intelligent, but he was also a moral leper. Got it?

What do you call a person who wishes eternal torture on innocent people?
 
Caution: these require intelligence and, more importantly, intellectual honesty.

It's certain not for everyone.

https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/six-reasons-why-objective-morality-is-nonsense/
https://philosophynow.org/issues/115/Is_Morality_Objective

Yeah, I especially like this person's perspective...

Yes, morality is objective. (By ‘morality’ I mean that which we all recognise as right behaviour – that which we call ‘good’). Have you ever tried making up your own morality and applying it to your family and friends? If you have, you could well be reading this magazine whilst sitting in a prison cell or an asylum.

Certainly many people have attempted to invent their own morality and then impose it on others, for instance, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot. And look what they created – a new Humanity, a new Society! Does anyone fancy living in their morally subjective worlds? Each led to inhumanity and madness. It is also a fact that none of the great moral teachers of our world ever invented a morality of their own. For example, Jesus didn’t teach new morality, but rather he elaborated on what already existed. ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’ already was, and is, a universal and eternal principle.

It is of course the case that moral codes, although objective, are tailored to, or tailored by, the particular culture and age into which they are incarnated. For instance, it has never been the case (as far as we know) in any culture, at any time, that a man (even the chief) can take whichever woman he wants to be his wife. In Britain today she has to be over sixteen, and in other countries her age may be higher or lower. Also, someone has to give consent to the marriage; either the woman herself, or her family, or the elders of the tribe, or the chief’s other wives! Whatever the ‘subjective’ cultural differences, the same objective moral principle applies.

We can no more invent a subjective morality than we can invent a new primary colour. We can no more come up with a novel morality which is in no way connected to an objective morality than we can come up with a new way of breathing.

Karl Wray, Carlisle, Cumbria
 
Strawman. The subject was God, who you claim doesn't exist but for which you're bankrupt in backing up your claim.

The subject was imaginary things, such as fairies and gods. How do you determine what is imaginary?
 
Yeah, I especially like this person's perspective...

Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot had their own unique moral codes, codes that made it ok to treat certain groups with brutal force. They did not have a subjective moral code, they had a rigid one. Morality itself is subjective from culture to culture and has been throughout history. There has never been one universal agreed upon moral code that has not changed or has been accepted by all of humanity. There is no moral code built into the universe that all can access and agree upon 100%.
 
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot had their own unique moral codes, codes that made it ok to treat certain groups with brutal force. They did not have a subjective moral code, they had a rigid one. Morality itself is subjective from culture to culture and has been throughout history. There has never been one universal agreed upon moral code that has not changed or has been accepted by all of humanity. There is no moral code built into the universe that all can access and agree upon 100%.

Just because man in general does not choose to follow the moral code set up by his Creator, that does not make the objective code any less valid...nor will man's choice be tolerated indefinitely...
 
Just because man in general does not choose to follow the moral code set up by his Creator, that does not make the objective code any less valid...nor will man's choice be tolerated indefinitely...

What exactly is THE objective moral code? And is it only objective because God said so? Or is it objective in nature and can never be mistaken by any human being who is perfectly objective?
 
What exactly is THE objective moral code? And is it only objective because God said so? Or is it objective in nature and can never be mistaken by any human being who is perfectly objective?

You'll find it in the Bible...and BTW no human is perfect at anything...and yes, to God, it is objective and in the end His opinion stands...
 
You'll find it in the Bible...and BTW no human is perfect at anything...and yes, to God, it is objective and in the end His opinion stands...

Why can't it be found without the Bible? Not everyone is exposed to it. How do these people access the objective moral code?
 
Just because man in general does not choose to follow the moral code set up by his Creator, that does not make the objective code any less valid...nor will man's choice be tolerated indefinitely...

Not following your cult does not make anyone else's moral code less valid. Stop with the end of the world nonsense, your sect has cried wolf too many times.
 
You'll find it in the Bible...and BTW no human is perfect at anything...and yes, to God, it is objective and in the end His opinion stands...

The holy books of other religions have moral codes.
 
Why can't it be found without the Bible? Not everyone is exposed to it. How do these people access the objective moral code?

We both know that there is no objective moral code.
 
You'll find it in the Bible...and BTW no human is perfect at anything...and yes, to God, it is objective and in the end His opinion stands...

Newp. I spoke to the god of the bible and she said that's not where it's found.
 
Why can't it be found without the Bible? Not everyone is exposed to it. How do these people access the objective moral code?

Whether all are exposed to it or not, it still exists and to an extent, all of mankind adheres to that innate code instilled in their creation...
 
Whether all are exposed to it or not, it still exists and to an extent, all of mankind adheres to that innate code instilled in their creation...

Now you say it is innate. That is entirely saying it is what is written in the Bible. How does a person recognize this innate code as being the one true objective moral code?
 
Whether all are exposed to it or not, it still exists and to an extent, all of mankind adheres to that innate code instilled in their creation...

Really? How did this code get into DNA all those millions of years ago?
 
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