Those aren't contradictions at all. A contradiction would be saying ''a = 1, a = 2" A cannot be 1 and 2 at the same time. The statement contradicts itself. Life isn't "full of contradictions". I got out of bed this morning, I didn't ''get out of bed and not get out of bed''. I ate breakfast, I didn't "eat breakfast and not eat breakfast".
Aside from not being a contradiction the "You can reject religion and live by principles found in a religious text." doesn't make really make sense. To be perfectly honest it's a really stupid statement if you think about. The statement supposes that religious and nonreligious philosophical views, as well as laws are competently incompatible with one and another. For example I reject Christianity, the customs, rules, notions etc. but still abide by something like "do not kill" since not killing someone would be part of honoring the most basic principle of the social contract. ie. I reject Christianity, but I embrace the notion of the social contract, the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and the laws of the U.S.
As for the whole "doing evil to do good" thing, if you want to debate moral absolutism vs moral relativity vs moral nihilism then fine by me but you can't use a an argument for moral relativity in a debate regarding metaphysics.
So since those last two statements don't make any sense and don't prove your point tell me how is our lives full of contradictions? Also don't cut up my post and type out a response line by line and branch the discussion twenty different ways like you usually do. I'll just ignore it.
Last edited by Macbeth (2011-03-01 19:36:28)
