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To: gobucks
For in truth, I really don't have any desire to be the leftist's fool, and it is quite possible I am wrong in my outlook. The last thing I want is an authentic Freeper to think I subscribe to 'postmodern nihilism'. If that were true, then, by definition, it would be ME who is the leftist, disguised as a conservative, who is attempting to 'split' the core of the true GOP.
It's not that you're a leftist yourself. It's that you have started your fight with the left by capitulating to the core assumption of one of their most radical elements: That there is no objective truth in the real world. Where leftists try to thrive within that world of moral subjectivism, you try to get out of it by inserting God-as-lawmaker to impose a moral code from the outside as a surrogate for the objective truth that you wrongly assume doesn't really exist.

If God does exist, He could enforce the law, or He could encourage us to follow the law, but it's wrong to think He needs to think up some law in order for there to be one for us to follow in the first place.

The Intelligent Design crowd fears evolution because they fear that if people lose their belief in God, they'll lose any reason to act morally - because they don't believe the real world contains any compelling reasons to act morally.

Resources for those interested in understanding creationism as a capitulation to postmodernist subjectivism:


108 posted on 09/20/2005 1:18:24 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Seeing What's Next by Christensen, et.al.)
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To: jennyp
... but it's wrong to think He needs to think up some law in order for there to be one for us to follow in the first place.

I see, I think, what you mean...

. Let's say you are correct, and it is indeed 'wrong' to think this. So, to continue your 'If God exists...' train of thought ... What if God WERE real, he Does Exist ... would any 'right' way to think about him even exist at all, from your point of view? If God exists, is it possible to think about Him rationally?

119 posted on 09/20/2005 6:26:58 PM PDT by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
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