Red Robin said:
RoperAB said:
Big subject but here is a quote from Dr. Laura.
If you would be imbarassed for people to know about it, chances are its the wrong thing to be doing.
Allow me to be argumentative for the sake of discussion , if I were from a canibal tribe in Africa or South America for example , and the custom was after grandpa died , for all the family to gather around and eat a piece of flesh from grandpa to appease the gods and to continue grandpa's "life" , if I were to not partake of the ritual and was embarrassed by my departure from culture, I am doing wrong? If it was custom to sacrifice my daughter in a temple to appease the sun god and I didn't and was embarrassed by my lack of obedience, I am doing wrong?[/quote"]
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Really what it comes right down to as far as I can see is that we only know for sure that it is wrong because of scripture (Ten Commandments) tells us that its wrong. We cant really define whats right and wrong through reason or logic. We don’t really understand it.
We call a carried thing carried simply because it is carried, not because it possesses some innate characteristic or property that we could call 'carried'. Carried, that is, is not an inherent quality like weight. What im saying is that we carry something that is already there. This thing exists without our carrying it; our carrying does not bring it into existence. So too as far as goodness is concerned; we approve or disapprove of something which is already, in some sense, there; our approving, by itself, does not make an action good. The approval follows from our recognition that an action is good; not the other way round. Or, to put it more simply, the goodness comes before the approval.
Without scripture we are lost and basically just Druid/Pagan and Wiccas on our way to personal hell :wink: .