re: #412 sprucepinehollow

wenchwrench: Thanks for the welcome! Pardon my ignorance, but how did you do the re:# with a link back to the post?

Is a world with a transcendent lawgiver any better than a world without one? I believe the answer is “yes.” People will always have opinions (opinions are like armpits, every one has two, and most of them smell bad.) If a transcendent being truly exists that is good, wise, unchanging and all knowing, then we at least have some reasonable hope for knowing what is right, even if we don’t do it.

I guess that’s my opinion.

That’s not to say that atheist don’t do things that many people describe as good. It’s just absurd when they insist that anything is good… or evil.

Look at the header of a comment: Under the commenter’s nic are the date and time, and in blue it says “reply” and “quote”. If you click “reply”, it works like in my #411. If you click “quote,” it looks like this comment. In my #410, I used “reply,” then copied and pasted some of your words, and made them into a block quote using the tools just above the box where you type your comment (the gray icons for strike, bold, italics, quotation, and link.)

As for your opinion,

If a transcendent being truly exists that is good, wise, unchanging and all knowing, then we at least have some reasonable hope for knowing what is right, even if we don’t do it.

that initial “If” is the hurdle that prevents an atheist from agreeing with you. It has to be taken on faith. Faith is not something one can build a constitution upon, if it is to serve a diverse nation. If we were a theocracy, then maybe. Is that what you would prefer?