DogmaHunter
Code Monkey
These are good points.
But if I also think about and reason out for myself why God said don't do XYZ or do ABC, then I am not now both obediently moral and reasoningly moral?
That would depend on how you approach that.
If in that exercise you still operate under the dogmatic premise XYZ MUST be immoral and ABC MUST be moral because god said so, then no.
At that point, if you can't find any reason for why ABC is moral, you'ld still be calling it moral because god said so.
Or worse: if your own reasoning informs you that ABC is actually immoral, then you'ld still call it moral "because god said so".
If however, you approach this with the mindset that you could actually come to a conclusion that doesn't agree with what god said....
But at that point, one would have to wonder why one would bother with what god supposedly did or didn't say... since at that point you can come to moral conclusions by yourself - regardless of what the bible states.
So now I have the best of both types of morality:
The "obedience" thing is not a type of morality. That's my whole point.
Obedience is just obedience.
Morality is all about inention, motivation and reason.
Mere obedience is all about..... being obedient, for the sake of being obedient.
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