Secularism and Atheism

[ajazali]

Re: Secularism and Atheism

@Med911

Im not saying things are moral by nature. Im posing to you a philosophical dilemma that was proposed by plato.

Question is simply this.

Is something moral because God made it so, or is it moral because he saw that it was moral and told us.

If it is moral because God made it so, then moral/immoral is arbitrary.

If it is moral by its nature, then that implies a standard outside of God…

So for those of us who feel we need an ultimate arbitrator to determine right from wrong, doesn’t citing god only raise more questions, not less?

If Atheists have difficult questions to answer, then so do the religious.

The question presumes that states of good and bad with things are constant that do not change, that is flawed presumption. Where-as no deep philosophical reasoning is required to prove that human beings are capable of doing good and bad. So things are not in single and constant state, and God likes the tendency of human being to do good than to do bad.

P.S. If you think that Plato didn’t presume things are in constant state of either good or bad then plz do reply, I shall try to answer that too, InshaAllah.