Religion and Morality - independent

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  • Religion and Morality (independent)
    • Euthyphro Dilemma
      • ancient Greece between Socrates and Euthyphro
      • 'Does God command only what is good, or do his commands becomes good because he has made them?'
        • omnipotence v omni benevolence
    • Heteronomy, autonomy, theonomy
      • H - action is influenced by outside individual
      • A - action is independent
      • T - Christian form of govt - ruled by Divine law
    • Abraham and Isaac
      • God told Abraham to kill his only son and he was willing
      • God saved them because of Abraham's devotion
      • this is blind faith - not morality
    • Westboro Baptist Church
      • most hated family in America
      • hate the gays
        • protest soldiers' funerals
    • ISIS / al Qaeda
      • ISIS - terrorist org. loosely tie themselves to Islam
      • al Qaeda - responsible for 9/11
      • misinterpret texts for own agenda
    • Abortion clinic bombings
      • USA - people have guns
      • those who believe life begins at conception
      • abortion is murder - so they murder too
    • Quiverfull
      • children are a  blessing from God
      • As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;so are children of the youth.Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
    • Biblical Parenting
      • parents model their child on the Bible
        • can lead to ostracisation
    • Evil Commands of God
      • God drowns the earth
    • Dawkins
      • Ted Haggard
        • rent boys
        • crack cocaine
      • 1 - atheists can be happy and moral
      • 2 - natural selection are superior to God hypothesis
      • 3 - children shouldn't be labelled by religion
      • 4 - atheists should be proud
    • Sharpe
      • 1 - condemnation of medical services
      • 2 - harassment of workers
      • 3 - condemnation of sexual behaviour
      • 4 - anti-women
      • 5 - ignore environment

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