Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
— Serah Eley
If a hypothetical god created us and is all powerful, but his requests are in conflict with our hedonistic nature, what do we do? — INFJTheist
My next question would be: isn't that still essentially hedonistic? Maybe not in the sex and wine hedonistic tradition, but in the Epicurean tradition? If our own personal pleasure of the mind/soul/body is the highest good, then can we ever find a rationale to contradict that, even if other morals and goods are proposed by powers greater than ourselves? — INFJTheist
What I was trying to say is that it appears if our own happiness is the greatest good as far as our identity/ego is concerned, how could any other good attempt to usurp it? — INFJTheist
sn't the measure of how good a thing is, whether it's God's commandments or charity or selfishness, won't we measure it by how happy it makes us? — INFJTheist
Even if a god is necessary to create objective morality, what is the difference between objective and subjective morality if we are inclined not to obey it? Is it the punishment that makes it objective? Is it the consequence of going against nature (similar to eating an unhealthy diet, health being a byproduct of living in accordance with the laws of nature), or is it that a deity would know what is best for us all and so "good" here is also what we should desire if we were wise? — INFJTheist
There are many philosophical arguments for and against belief in God but the meaning of that particular story is not one that is often mentioned in connection to philosophy of religion. — Wayfarer
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