Why not think for yourself and make that conclusion yourself?
I
am thinking for myself. It's not like I wake up and say "oh well, I can't figure it out, might as well ask God." It's more like I actually do think about it and realize that you
cannot find an objective basis for any sort of morality. At least you can't for any sort of morality that you desire to enforce (the only exception to this is a morality that everyone agrees upon, but that too is imperfect).
Like I said, both Charles Manson and Osama Bin Laden claimed that they were only doing what God told them too do. If God does exsist, how can you say that they were lying and delusional? What if God really did talk to them? If you ask me, God telling Manson and Bin Laden to slaughter innocent people is pretty consistant with what he's said in the past. You know...about killing babies.
Maybe He did. I have reason to believe that He didn't because those people aren't here. They were not successful. In essence, God didn't come to 3 million of their ancestors and tell them that He desires certain things of them and then help them survive for the next 3300 years (the Jews are still around).
You say that most people who "hear God" experience something that does not come from God; fair enough. However, all you have, then, is a collection of things that you know God didn't do. This doesn't say anything about how God actually operates.
I know that. I didn't say that God doesn't speak to people as a voice in the head, but that I have no reason to believe that He does.
How exactly can you tell the difference betwen an objective morality recognized by everyone and a subjective morality implanted somehow into every single person?
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you are asking here...
fantôme profane;1606984 said:
Just to clarify, you are saying is that all you need is to be 51% sure that the apparition is really God and not a chemical imbalance in your brain, and then you would go out killing babies. Is that what you are saying? That all you need is 50%+? Are you saying that if you were 51% certain that you had received a message from God then your own sense of right and wrong would go right out the window?
Seeing as how I can't know anything 100% (btw, no one can), all I need is evidence of a 50%+ probability of the decision I'm making to be a correct one. At least if I am trying to make a logical decision. If we can't know anything 100%, but can know over 50%, then we should always make the decision that has more then 50% chances of being the correct decision.
This comes very close to a very true statement. All you need to do is remove the first word. If you did so then your statement would conform with your experience.
I can't and won't say that every person who claims to hear God speak in their heads is lying/delusional. I can't know that. All I can know is that those who I have met that have made that claim have been wrong.