Really? This is the best that christcucks have to offer? I was told Flannery O'Connor had more going on for her so I read both Complete Stories and Mystery and Manners and she is just a catholic televangelist
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>>24891229>If God isn't real why be moralchristians sometimes like to pretend simple empathy doesn't exist
>>24891229Who cares you cant argue with christians its a complete waste of your time to debate them let them worship a Jew and cut themselves for finding a woman attractive... Wwjd goy? Oy vey stop questioning the bible
>>24891241Empathy is untrustworthy. What if YOUR empathy and MY empathy lead us to different conclusions on what moral action to take?
Her books are still good
>>24891241It does exist, but it depends on the person. Some people are more empathetic than others, and the church exists to mitigate those levels into a cohesive whole.
>>24891242Well, why don't you, then?
>>24891229I'm not Christian however I think you might be missing the point. The idea is that without an absolute arbiter of morality then everything is subjective. Even Christians will admit not believers can be moral. Most atheist philosophers will also concede this as well.
>>24891249and what if YOUR interpretation of the bible is different from MY interpretation of the bible? same shit
>>24891370Alasdair McIntyre and Cornelius Van Til both talk about this
>>24891229That's the problem with centralized religion. It cannot look beyond itself, and therefore can never imagine that 'different' can, in somewhat rare cases, also mean 'better'. What you see here is just bitter xenophobia, where being a decent person has become synonymous with the absolute rigidity of the religious system one subscribes to
>>24891249So? There's no good or evil. Might is right.
>>24891370No, that's not quite what Christians are aiming for here, I think. The absolute arbiter could be something physical and inert, and morality could be emergent. They believe there is a magical quality to morals that is granted through divinity.
>>24891472Attributing cultural value to biology is an old outdated idea that's ignorant of the anthropology work showing the many varieties of living that exist, like cannibalism or sex slaves being normal; it only seems weird to us because it's a foreign culture.
>>24891431>It cannot look beyond itselfNor should it.
