/lit/ - Literature

>>18365410
Atheism:
>Nothing matters at all, we are all just irrelevant bits of matter that don't matter to anyone
Also Atheism:
>We must take religious believers to the mental hospital and keep them there. It's really important that we do this for the good of society
Neck yourself

>>17774730
4chan already exists and you're here forever

>>17479128
We can never think rationally about life because to think rationally about a thing one must observe the thing soberly and at a distance. Therefore Buddha is a fraud.

>>17326861
You need to look at that again before you think you understand it
>It is wrong to tell lies
>IF it is wrong to tell lies, THEN it is wrong to get your little brother to lie
>Therefore, it is wrong to get your little brother to lie
The problem here is that the IF part of the conditional is not proven by Premise 1. There is no real distinction between the IF conditional here and Premise 1. Peter Geach is not claiming that expressivism is not true, he is claiming that it doesn't explain how moral conditionals work (I agree, it doesn't). But either way it's a false syllogism because nothing exists that will prove that it is wrong to tell lies in order to satisfy the conditional.

>>17239878
>Communists during the red terror: Grab priests in the night and make them drink lead in a mock communion ceremony
>Westerners: Was Jesus as described in the Bible a communist?
This is where you have to get off the idolatry train in order to understand Christianity. When Christianity points to the future, it sees the return of Jesus Christ and the Resurrection of the dead, the final judgement, and the re-making of creation under the governance of God. There is no earthly government, however rational, that Christians will say "yeah this is it, perfection."