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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who started this subject12/7/2000 10:12:07 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (3) of 28931
 
Today and yesterday I pondered an interesting thought. Well interesting to me, anyhow. This is it in brief:

An all-knowing deity would allow for the fact that some people need to believe in absolutes. If this Cosmic Force knows that some people need structure, then orthodox religion may be the only way to get those people to act in a good and decent way. Frequently the argument against the Humanist position is that without God's prohibition of evil, no Humanist morality is valid and that man will decay into some incoherent sense of vice.

While no Humanist needs this type of mechanism to stay on the straight and narrow ( because it is rational to act in a positive way out of an enlightened self-interest), some people are more motivated by fear. In fact, their insensitivity to their fellow man is so great that the only way they can be persuaded to not be evil is to believe in eternal damnation. Giving oneself over to Jesus is essentially like a Excel template for John Q. Public, providing his equation of morality.
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