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Friday, 30 October 2020

Answering the question of Dr Benedict Beckeld on whether God is necessary for morality


Is God Necessary for Morality?

10:00  Beckeld: "The Enlightenment was deeply Christian."

11:00  The law

12:00  Defining morality

13:00  The narrative part of the religion

14:00  Every moral system implicitly assumes the supremacy of its own system.

16:00  The bread and butter of political activism is the changing of the law.

17:00  The attribute, powers and narrative of the Abrahamic God

18:00  Are you the Jewish or gentile part of God's creation?

19:00  Patriarchal morality

20:00  The consequences of disunity

21:00  The Culture War, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution

24:00  Renaissance humanism

25:00  The European Wars of Religion

26:00  The Hegelian Dialectic

27:00  The Philosophy of History

28:00  Religion and politics

29:00  Humanism is idolatry.

30:00  The French and American Republic rejected the monarch's divine right to rule. 

31:00  The Koran would have all the human/legal rights we need. 

33:00  Egalitarianism

34:00  Assuming the existence of a Higher Power

35:00  Sacrifice

36:00  Trust and faith

37:00  Truth and good behaviour

38:00  Supreme Court

39:00  Justice

40:00  John Seldon

41:00  Abraham

42:00  Divine scripture

43:00  Hypothetical Supreme Authority

45:00  Jews are not responsible for Liberalism or the French Revolution.

47:00  Confusing the symptoms (immigrants) with the disease (the failure of Christianity)

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