Dad-O-Lot said:
Duncan Idaho said:
Well from their perspective it violates at least one of their tenets
*One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
Why? Why should one strive to "act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.love your neighbor as yourself"?
Same same. The only to reasons is that you do it out of empathy or you do it out fear of punishment. Personally, empathy provides more motivation than fear of hell.
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Is it OK if I reason that since a simple life is a better life, I AM acting with compassion and empathy by relieving them of another burden?
Even setting aside the empathy piece of this, since that seems so difficult to grasp..and how stupid of a Position this is.
If you beleived tha by taking those things you were improving his life, you would be burdening your own life, so it wouldn't be very rational.
But but hey, it has been a while since we had a good old fashion thread where the most vocal Christian's loudly proclaim "if I don't believe God would send me to hell, I'd spend my days raping, killing and stealing."