this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
129 points (99.2% liked)
Toilet Paper USA
513 readers
2 users here now
An offshoot of r/ToiletPaperUSA
Rules:
- Label if content is fake/Don't attempt to pass off fake content as legitimate.
- Keep extremely low effort shitposts to a shitposting community
- All lemmy.world instance rules apply here
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What Prager is arguing for here is Divine Command Theory - that whatever God says is good, is good; and whatever God says is bad, is bad.
It's a pretty shitty way to categorize morality, but it is sadly common.
The main problem with this theory is that God doesn't speak directly (whether he exists or not), so it's a way for a clergy, while they pretend to speak in the name of God, to define what's good and what's not.
It's also sidestepping Euthyphro's dilemma by just not caring about how arbitrary divine command theory makes morality.