Donna asks…
Does human love come from a deity or is simply revealed by a deity what it is like?
If you believe in deities.
I think, as a deist, that we intuitively know love and receive examples of this through various means. A deity can show you what love is, but it is up to us to love. Not that we are conduits for external love, it is internal.
weight loss cardiff answers:
As Laplace allegedly put it of celestial mechanics:
“Sir, I have no need of that hypothesis”.
One can get to ” love”, complex and variously defined as it is, without introducing a deity, so why do so, unless a deity is required on other grounds?
Richard asks…
What is the psychology behind the belief in a deity?
Why do some people believe in a deity and others don’t?
weight loss cardiff answers:
Indoctrination since birth and logic. They’ve been able to replicate a religious experience by putting a magnetic coil over a specific part of the brain, effectively proving religion is in your head. If you were born into a religion, you’re more likely to believe it (indoctrination) and unless you are smart enough to challenge it, you’ll believe it forever.
John asks…
Does objective morality by definition have to come from a deity?
If so, does logic (which is also objective) also have to come from a deity?
weight loss cardiff answers:
Objective morality may be achieved without a deity, how? Simply once you realize that maximum suffering is the worse thing that may be experienced by conscious beings. No, logic has nothing to do with a deity. For example unless you study Foucault, logic is necessarily true. A priori truths, like math, are objective. Since they don’t rely on observation, there is no observer to color their findings.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
