• Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t a person that is only kept from doing evil by being threatened with damnation … just an evil person?

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I think if we’re going to categorize people as “good” or “evil”, we should distinguish between their thoughts and actions. Otherwise, we’re playing Thought Police.

      In other words, I think a good answer to your question is, “Potentially.” or “Quite possibly, but we will never know for sure, because things played out differently.”

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s a really weird argument. I never even thought about murdering anyone, and never needed a sky wizard to tell me so. Imagine thinking about strangling your neighbour every day if it weren’t for that pesky bible.