Lumifer comments on Questions on Theism - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Aiyen 08 October 2014 09:02PM

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Comment author: Aiyen 15 October 2014 07:31:05PM 0 points [-]

It's something of a cop out to say "Common Sense", but I don't feel bad about raising a red flag on things like mandatory circumcision (not Christian, but Jewish, and Christianity claims the same God), genocide on wicked peoples to include infants and livestock (I can buy a culture becoming so corrupt that everyone indoctrinated into it would need to die, but why hurt the babies?), a lot of Mosaic law on sexuality, that kind of thing. I can't rule out that it all makes sense given enough wisdom (which God would presumeably have), but it's got to count as a source of questions.

Comment author: Lumifer 15 October 2014 07:58:28PM 1 point [-]

I would recommend a bit of introspection on where your "common sense" comes from... You might also consider whether your common sense would match that of other people in different cultures and different ages.