Re: ICR and its slurs
Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 13:11:34 -0600>Russell believes there is no God. Jim believes there is. If Russell is
>right then the Judeo-Christian philosophy is subjective. If Jim is right
>then it is objective. I think the confusion arises in the fact that
>Russell is not granting Jim's presupposition that God exists. The
>Judeo-Christian philosophy is only subjective if God does not exist. This
>argument will go nowhere if those presuppositions are not granted. (You
>may want to argue the validity of those presuppositions but that is an
>entirely different argument.) If Jim is right, and God exists, and He will
>reward those who follow him and punish those who disobey His law, then this
>IS a transcendant, objective moral law whether we like it or not and
>therefore superior to any subjective, human convention.
That's a fair summary of the situation. Of course, there is not one shred
of evidence to prove (logically and scientifically) that God exists.
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