I am an independent being: I owe no worship to any other being nor would any God own me as Lamberth's argument from autonomy proclaims. By virtue of my level of consciousness, I derive my independence, so no God nor the state grants me rights. The U.S. and Georgia's constitutions enable for the federal and state governments to protect my rights.
I am not a thing to which any God grants purposes as that idiot Paul claims that we are pottery and He, our potter, has rights over us. It betrays humanity to claim that it needs Him to grant it purpose.
We form our own meanings and purposes. I find enough good in my life to enjoy it but too much unrequited evil to find any God. This purposeless Cosmos does not give me disvalue as I myself have value. Others and I myself value me.
What sense could ever lie behind the twaddle that without God and the future state, I am valueless? What ever I do might just have momentary value or lasting value but I need no immortality to have those values. What the Founders did sill lives as our gargantuan value, even though someday this Earth will be no more.
" Lie is its own validation and reward and ultimate meaning to which neither God nor the future state can further validate," Inquiring Lynn
I need no God that the unsubstantiated arguments from angst and from happiness-purpose prattle! I got therapy for my angst and I make my own happiness.
None of this implies that I consider myself God as theists so prattle! I follow covenant morality for humanity- the presumption of humanism- that realistic theory that relies our our evolved moral sense that we have to refine. As a rational person to be consistent, I must be nice to others as I want them to be nice to me- the Platinum Rule.. I must use reason and facts alone with my refined, moral sense.
I desire to be moral,because that partakes of rationality. Why would I want to harm others without cause? Why would I want to be even an egoist? Why without the morality of those barbarians who made up all theistic ethics , would anything go? What a cruel blasphemy to most of humanity that is!
I need no divine enforcer of morality. I need no God to ground my moral ontology: our well-being t itself ground morality ontologically- in ourselves and in consequences. Others fault Sam Harris for insisting on that well-being, but that is objective: we discern the consequences to others' and our own well-being. We discern how to use these two notions of objectivity [1] equity and equality and [2] universality,applying to all. We override our mere whims and tastes with our considered moral judgment.
Covenant morality proclaims our planetary ethic: other nations count. We give charity to other peoples and help them otherwise personally or through the federal government.
Covenant morality proclaims our inter-dependence by which through government we can help all. That instantiates no tyrranny but simply putting our resources together to help those without resources who could be us one day.
This applies to person hood so that just having life renders no entity a person. People have brains and can feel pain. Thus, abortion is moral. We need no God speaking telepathically through mere people whether or not it is moral!And it is moral to save the whales!
To find divine intent when science finds none makes for reduced animism= theism as Lamberth's reduced animism argument proclaims.
When I pass away, I'll be that nothing I was before my birth. Again, this one life has value.
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