Throng Tha Throng Throng Throng!
Anybody? Sisqo? No? Okay. Whatevs. I put you all on blast.
So like last time and the time before that, we totally discussed some awesome questions regarding like God and stuff. And like some of these questions are just so completely devastating, and others are just kinda like meh? But still. You know? It's like when something is entirely whack and...but ill at the same time. That's literally what these questions are like. Obvi, these aren't the only questions I have, but these are excellent for conversating. So like in the comments you guys can be all like blah blah blah and just totally throw down and never get girlfriends. Shut. Up!
And now, the final installment of this Holy Trinity of Preambilicious Posts!
7. Do you have any doubts about your faith? Do you ever have any doubts about the existence of God? If so what are they? How do you overcome them?
8. If given the power of god, would you run the universe in the same way he/she/it does? With all the disease and suffering and murder and genocide and starvation and eternal punishment for those guilty of thought-crimes? And why does the universe, with all this suffering and un-intelligent design, appear as one would expect were there no God running the show?
9. What is your solution to the Euthyphro dilemma? Is a behavior "morally right" because God says it is? Or does God command certain behaviors because they are "morally right" in and of themselves? (You see the problem: If it is the former, then morality is arbitrary. God could just as easily deem rape and murder "morally right" as she could charity, forgiveness, and altruism. That would suck big time! If it is the latter, then goodness and morality exist independent of God's commands; God is just an unnecessary middle-person, reporting rather than dictating morality, and we can discover what is morally right on our own. It may even be the case that God is somehow inferior to goodness/morality. Both horns of this dilemma are deeply problematic for theists who think we derive our morality from God or that we need God–or belief in God–in order to be good, moral, compassionate people.)
10. How do you define the term “faith”? How do you define the term “reason”? And how do you distinguish reason from faith? What is the relationship between the two? Given our ability to use reason, why do you think faith is still a necessary part of our inquiry into the truth(s) about nature/the world/the universe? What can we discover by using faith which we can’t discover by using reason?
We are so close to finally diving into the books from the Ultimate Truth-Seeker Challenge, you can taste it. Tastes a little gross doesn't it. Sorry about that; that's my bad. Just a couple more itty bitty posts to knock out and then it's on!
Throw up them horns and gimme a full-throated death metal AMEN!
Reverend de la Pudge!
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