Re: What Is Good? (to Dave)
Ralph Nielsen (nielsen@uidaho.edu)
Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:23:28 -0700
Yoel
>In order to avoid the obvious fact that according to the Bible, his
>supposedly benevolent, omnipotent and omniscient God did horrible things
>and gave attrocious commandments which, according to common professed
>standards of most if not all ethnicities and standard to logical norms
>required for any sort of peaceful existance, David Court posed the
>question:"What is good?"
> <snip>
>Exposing women's genitals, forcefully chopping off foreskins of enemies,
>decapitations, sending people to eternal hell, rape, murder, pillage and
>plunder, driving out people from a temple with a whip, calling your own
>people "Children of the devil"... none of these seem to me to fall into the
>above definitions for good.
>
>Do they fall into yours, Dave?
>
>(DAVE 4/11) Yoel: Not mine, no. Jeffrey Dahmer's though I think. Do you
>not agree that different people have different ideas of what "good" is?
>
RALPH
So Dave believes that God and Jesus have the same moral standards as
Jeffrey Dahmer? Well, a lot of us will agree with you, Dave. And we are
also glad that you have decided to be honest.