God is needed for philosophy to be good.

[Autumnleaf]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards. The intimate connection between law and philosophy cause the law as well as philosophy to be undermined as either becomes compromised.

 

[Paradoxum]

People try to justify bad things with God too. Also, philosophy isn't just used to justify things you already believe, but can be used to try to understand things better, and change what you believe.

At least philosophy is based on reason and accepts it's own fallibility. God ideas on the other hand (if not based on philosophy) tend to be based on 'I have a feeling in my head that God said X', or 'I think this book says so', and are more likely to claim infallibility.

 

[KCfromNC]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards.

If I didn't know better, I'd assume you were attacking religious apologetics disguised as philosophy.

 

[durangodawood]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards. The intimate connection between law and philosophy cause the law as well as philosophy to be undermined as either becomes compromised.

I don think so.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

In philosophy, as well al science, things are a wee bit harder than just blah-blahing down from a pulpit.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards.

With God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of theologians who would use it to justify all manner of religious perversion and immorality according to outdated and flawed social standards.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[bhsmte]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards. The intimate connection between law and philosophy cause the law as well as philosophy to be undermined as either becomes compromised.

Really?

Why do countries with the highest amount of atheists have the lowest crime rates?

http://ffrf.org/uploads/timely/Religion&Society.pdf

 

[poolerboy0077]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards. The intimate connection between law and philosophy cause the law as well as philosophy to be undermined as either becomes compromised.

All you've done here is simply make bald assertions without justification. As one of my favorite public intellectuals once said, "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

 

[Loudmouth]

Without God philosophy becomes diseased by the whims of men who would use it to justify all manner of perversion and immorality according to moving target social standards. The intimate connection between law and philosophy cause the law as well as philosophy to be undermined as either becomes compromised.

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."--Steven Weinberg

 

[Gadarene]

Funny, the last time I saw someone using their grasp of philosophy to justify something as horrendous as...say....genocide, it was William Lane Craig.