Sunday, November 18, 2012

Errancy- no go!



                 Errancy has no foundations. It has no reason to guide anyone anymore than inerrancy. It jettisons contradictions within and without ,flawed morality but still insists on Yeshua as the savior. Yet, it won't jettison that when no need  for him as such exists!
               His being the Savior means the enshrinement of blood sacrifice. No need exists for a supposedly innocent person to die for the guilty ; indeed such is immoral. Barbaric minds just made up the twaddle so as to occasion deliverance from sin.
               Sin cannot exist as it means not measuring up to the Deity when what counts is what is moral, quite anther matter considering that the Euthyphro dispenses of Him as the moral legislator. Particular sects differ on what counts as sin. So, He has a forked tongue!
                 What is right for sentient beings and the environment overwhelms any theistic morality and any good one actually reflects our humanist ones. No theistic morality can ground itself in the Deity, No, we humanists ground ours ontologically in human nature- the moral sense.
                Any moral and rational being knows that expiation for wrong-doing is person-centered. Barbarian attitudes must never enter the fray of moral concerns We no longer stone people [ except in barbarian societies]. We act morally superior to those of the long ages of faith as Steven Pinker and Richard Carrier vouchsafe. We proportion sentencing to the crime. Never would we want people to endure eternal damnation!
                  Christianity and Islam have the problem of Hell that adds to their problem of evil. We humanists objurgate such theistic " ethics!"
                   Errancy cannot gainsay this with prattle about diminished versions of Hell! No Deity has the  right to punish us anyway! Ti's an argument from ignorance to claim that why, He has omniscience so that He should have that authority: we have enough intelligence to discern that no, we can judge any Deity, finding any guilty of mistreatment with all the horrors and this notion of Hell. It does mock reason, morality and - humanity to prattle for that He knows best attitude!
                   Morality needs no transcendental enforcer; people can enforce their own doing-right.











                   So, why bespeak his salvific power? Ah, is it supposedly salvation in the sense of being born-again? Why, anyone can do herself over by clinging to some ideology or whatever!
                    And just what are the good metaphors for those wanton verses? What is the one for the Deluge- that biocide? What is the good one for murdering the first-born of the Egyptians? And for any of the Qur'anic ones, we humanists query likewise.
                   
                  

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