Re:If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything (2019)
by slowmovintarget on Monday April 20, 2020 @11:42AM
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Because no where in the article does the main thrust of religion--personal responsibility for doing good in the world--enter into the discussion.
It begs the question by trying to show that obviously doing good to get to Heaven is really about the community, therefore we should all be Marxists. Being a good person will have a positive effect on the community in which you live, but the point is not about how high your utility to the community is. The point of being a good person is that it reduces suffering, or at the least makes it meaningful.
But individualism, in this formal sense, is anathema to such discussions.
It begs the question by trying to show that obviously doing good to get to Heaven is really about the community, therefore we should all be Marxists. Being a good person will have a positive effect on the community in which you live, but the point is not about how high your utility to the community is. The point of being a good person is that it reduces suffering, or at the least makes it meaningful.
But individualism, in this formal sense, is anathema to such discussions.