World Religions Week 33 Flashcards
Jesus died for ____, so we should treat everyone respectfully
all
Love of Jesus cannot be exhibited through _______
hatred
Statement that is contradictory because it is an absolute statement…
“There is no such things as absolutes or absolute truth”
An argument that commits suicide is…
a statement that as soon as it is spoken, it is false
Without God…
objective moral values do not exist
Morality without God that is based on each persons opinion is…
subjective
Subjective morality applies only to the…
subject
Without God, there can be no…and no….
no evil and no good, just blind pitiless indifference
God wills something because…
He is good
_____ is the standard of moral values
God
If God doesn’t exist, no action should…
be considered right or wrong
Moral Argument is…
- If God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist
- Objective moral values and duties do exist
- Therefore, God exists
No ____, no _____
God, problem
Be good for ______ _____
goodness sake
Question raised by atheism is…
whether we really can be good without God
You can be good without…
believing in God
Issue is not whether we…but it is whether…
whether we believe in God, but whether God exists
Value of ______ so engrained in students today that they are afraid of making moral judgement
tolerance
Values
Have to do with something that is good or bad
Duties
have to do with something being right or wrong
Just because something is good doesn’t mean…
a moral obligation to do that something
Good or bad has to do with…
Moral worth
Right or wrong..
has to do with something being forbidden
Subjective is…
dependent on one’s opinions
Objective is…
independent of one’s opinions
God is the ____ ____ meaning…
Summa bonum, the greatest good or highest good
Naturalism states…
everything that exists is determined by science
_______ values are not required by science, therefore naturalism does not work
moral
According to naturalism, all the morality in our lives is just…
subjective illusion of human beings
In atheism, moral values are just…
byproduct of social biological evolution
speciesism
unjustified bias in favor of one’s own species
Moral duties spring from…
God’s commandments
Moral duties just…
engrained into us by society
According to atheism someone of defies moral obligations is just…
socially unacceptable and not wrong
According to atheism there are no…
objective moral obligations
Atheist often respond to argument with…
how dare you say I am a bad person that is immoral how dare you make a judgement like that
Bible says there is an _____ moral compass by God
innate
_____ is not necessary for morality, _____ is necessary for morality
Belief in God, God
Euthyphro dilemma
named after character in one of Plato’s dialogues
Is something good because God wills it, or does God will it because it is good
Each of those statements are not right, so answer is that God wills something because He is good
God nature determines…
good and the bad
God’s will determines the…
right and the wrong
Correct is…
God wills something because it is good, and it is good because He wills it
Plato thought that the good…
simply exists, it is independent self existent idea
Atheists also may say that good simply…
exists, all on their own
responses include…
- it’s hard to understand, doesn’t make sense
- provides no basis for moral duties
- improbable that evolution made these creatures whose life aligns with moral obligations
Theism is more probable because…
it holds God who holds both realms of reality, under one natural moral law giver
Stubborn Humanism means…
the atheist wants to affirm some moral values
Shopping list approach
Philosophers just pick the moral properties they need in order for their system to work, no explanation here
Many people will usually acknowledge moral objectivism if you give them…
illustrations
The number of people doing an action does not…
affect the morality of the action
Genetic Fallacy
attempts to invalidate a person’s point of view by showing how he came to hold it
Atheism doesn’t aim at truth it aims at…
survivability
Atheism leads to…
skeptics of all beliefs, no way to know its truth
How you treat people…
effects you based on your views or not
