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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
That's not really the question I asked.
The question I asked is, if you it were to be proven satisfactorily to you that god does not exist, would your behavior, and your desire to do be what you consider to be a "good" person, change at all?
And what I alluded to was the concept of "burden of proof". But it's a distraction from the question I originally posed and find more interesting, so I don't want to get into it now. The question I'm interested in is if your sense of morality and of right vs. wrong, is contingent on your belief in god, or if it would remain in tact without it.
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You keep opening the door.
Query, though. Which is worse? Adhering to a moral code that is not necessarily self-evident out of a belief that it was commanded by a God that you believe to exist, or deriving a sense of community by hopping on one foot at prescribed times of the day and pretending that doing so was commanded by a God in which you don't believe?
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Originally Posted by Alex
If it helps to imagine, rather than proof god doesn't exist (and consider my version an add-on to GD's so I don't undercut him), how about if you received proof that god exists but you were completely wrong about its fundamental nature.
Say, it shows up, offers convincing evidence of who it is but says "Yes, I invented the universe but I moved on to other projects immediately afterward. There is no afterlife and all religions founded on earth have been entirely human constructions. Nothing you all do matters in the slightest to me, I was just cleaning a closet and stumbled across this old project so I thought I'd drop in. Boy did evolution go in a completely different direction than I expected. Anyway, ta ta for now, might stop by again some day."
What does that do to your moral behavior.
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I believe your premise would most likely be dismissed as a temptation.