Good and evil is a binary. Sure, in the day to day it varies, but in the grand scheme of things, it is one or the other.
If someone is 99% good, but the other 1% is them being a serial killer, they are not a good person.
If someone is 99% good, but the other 1% they lie to cheat people out of stuff and enrich themselves, they are not a good person.
Everybody does something bad from time to time, so nobody is truly good.
Just because most people aren't a 1% demon doesn't make us largely good. History demonstrates that we are not, and handwaving that as some cabal lie or as if the cabal were/are behind everything bad, is to completely deny our observable reality, where people are perfectly happy to wish death upon those they are told to hate by the media, without a second thought.
You are not being logical. Different decisions and actions dictate your karmic debt. Obviously someone who donates to charity and is a serial killer won’t be 99% good and 1% evil. The two actions are weighted differently karmically. Don’t be ridiculous because we get no where with this apples to oranges comparison.
There is no karmic debt. Only judgement by the One and Holy God.
And according to His judgement, one sin, one act of imperfection, means death. From the highest crime to the lowest.
I tried to make my position there clear in a less direct, heavy-handed way, but that is where I am coming from.
In my view, no one is truly good. We are all capable of both good and evil, sure, but no one is perfectly, truly good. And as good can not dwell with evil, being "largely good", even if true, will get us nowhere.
All of our history demonstrates that our nature is sin, not good. And the hand-wave that is blaming the cabal for everything is unsatisfying. The problem isn't just the cabal, it's human nature.
Take it up with God, I guess. He knows much more than you and I do about His creation.
And remember, no objective standard outside of God (any alleged god) and an external revelation to Man (any alleged revelation to Man) exists to be able to accurately claim any sort of moral truth.
Without a god and an external, objective source, nothing we as fallible humans conclude is objectively valid, at least morally. For example, some people think lying is morally ok, even righteous, if it is only a little white-lie. Some think no lying is ok. There is no objectivity here. And this extends all the way up to every moral conundrum and fallible human view.
So frankly, the only position that is absurd is yours, which posits you as the sole arbiter of knowledge and as having ultimate authority in that knowledge. It is a position of extreme ego, where whatever you believe is the ultimate truth, and whatever anyone else says that is contradictory must be wrong because they couldn't possibly know more than you about whatever mystical universal morality you both subscribe to. And then of course anyone who posits that an objective source exists to provide us guidance is just written off immediately without consideration of whether or not the source is real or not. Because God couldn't possibly be real if He disagrees with your moral philosophy, oh great one!
Good and evil is a binary. Sure, in the day to day it varies, but in the grand scheme of things, it is one or the other.
If someone is 99% good, but the other 1% is them being a serial killer, they are not a good person.
If someone is 99% good, but the other 1% they lie to cheat people out of stuff and enrich themselves, they are not a good person.
Everybody does something bad from time to time, so nobody is truly good.
Just because most people aren't a 1% demon doesn't make us largely good. History demonstrates that we are not, and handwaving that as some cabal lie or as if the cabal were/are behind everything bad, is to completely deny our observable reality, where people are perfectly happy to wish death upon those they are told to hate by the media, without a second thought.
You are not being logical. Different decisions and actions dictate your karmic debt. Obviously someone who donates to charity and is a serial killer won’t be 99% good and 1% evil. The two actions are weighted differently karmically. Don’t be ridiculous because we get no where with this apples to oranges comparison.
There is no karmic debt. Only judgement by the One and Holy God.
And according to His judgement, one sin, one act of imperfection, means death. From the highest crime to the lowest.
I tried to make my position there clear in a less direct, heavy-handed way, but that is where I am coming from.
In my view, no one is truly good. We are all capable of both good and evil, sure, but no one is perfectly, truly good. And as good can not dwell with evil, being "largely good", even if true, will get us nowhere.
All of our history demonstrates that our nature is sin, not good. And the hand-wave that is blaming the cabal for everything is unsatisfying. The problem isn't just the cabal, it's human nature.
That’s retarded. Sorry.
Nice argument.
Take it up with God, I guess. He knows much more than you and I do about His creation.
And remember, no objective standard outside of God (any alleged god) and an external revelation to Man (any alleged revelation to Man) exists to be able to accurately claim any sort of moral truth.
Without a god and an external, objective source, nothing we as fallible humans conclude is objectively valid, at least morally. For example, some people think lying is morally ok, even righteous, if it is only a little white-lie. Some think no lying is ok. There is no objectivity here. And this extends all the way up to every moral conundrum and fallible human view.
So frankly, the only position that is absurd is yours, which posits you as the sole arbiter of knowledge and as having ultimate authority in that knowledge. It is a position of extreme ego, where whatever you believe is the ultimate truth, and whatever anyone else says that is contradictory must be wrong because they couldn't possibly know more than you about whatever mystical universal morality you both subscribe to. And then of course anyone who posits that an objective source exists to provide us guidance is just written off immediately without consideration of whether or not the source is real or not. Because God couldn't possibly be real if He disagrees with your moral philosophy, oh great one!