Ready to wrap this up? (Introduction)

by Cary Cook , Sunday, June 15, 2008, 18:59 (6005 days ago) @ dhw

>I find it absolutely inconceivable that a just God (by my subjective understanding of "just") would send down a Flood to drown every man, woman, child and baby except for the family of one drunkard whom he happened to like... - I would agree, except that I can conceive of the possibility of an afterlife where everyone who got unjustly shafted is justly compensated.
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>I find it inconceivable that a just God would approve of the Crusades, the Inquisition, Islamic suicide bombers, - Total agreement. - >or my sacrificing six billion people in order not to have to torture and kill one child - Total agreement. Dilemmas like this are resolved by weighing everything on a scale of emotional economics. If emotional pleasure/displeasure can be quantified, then justice is possible ... given enough time.
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>But I certainly would not dare to say that those who believe in this kind of justice are "totally insane", or that their code is "definitely and objectively wrong". - Total agreement. But there do exist moral codes (Stalin example) which if not definitely and objectively wrong, then I must be totally insane - which is what I said. 
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>(George Jelliss, Teapot Agnosticism, 3 February 16.52). - No problem. If George is telling the truth, then he knows 'definitely and objectively' that there is no God.