I’ve probably mentioned this before, but I actually did cease believing in morality when I ceased believing in God. I had grasped the nettle of the Euthyphro dilemma the same way as Vox Day: God can arbitrarily declare what is moral or immoral, just as a consequence of being God. Objective morality had no detectable independent existence otherwise. Since neither God nor morality exists and impinged on my world, ceasing to believe in them has not caused anything to happen to me analogous to disbelieving in a car racing towards you. The invisible pink unicorn comparison is apt.
Err… the thing Vox Day is calling morality simply isn’t. The word your looking for is submission, and naturally when you find there’s nothing to submit to that stops.
It may not be your morality, but submission to God definitely was mine. Of course, at that time I would have insisted that other were confusing “morality” with something other than submission to God!
I suspect you stopped believing in (certain notions of) ‘moral realism’ upon your deconversion, as did I, but did you stop thinking that people had reasons for action to praise, condemn, reward, and punish others’ desires and actions? Did you suddenly acquire desires to do great harm, and lose desires to see others prosper?
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but I actually did cease believing in morality when I ceased believing in God. I had grasped the nettle of the Euthyphro dilemma the same way as Vox Day: God can arbitrarily declare what is moral or immoral, just as a consequence of being God. Objective morality had no detectable independent existence otherwise. Since neither God nor morality exists and impinged on my world, ceasing to believe in them has not caused anything to happen to me analogous to disbelieving in a car racing towards you. The invisible pink unicorn comparison is apt.
Err… the thing Vox Day is calling morality simply isn’t. The word your looking for is submission, and naturally when you find there’s nothing to submit to that stops.
It may not be your morality, but submission to God definitely was mine. Of course, at that time I would have insisted that other were confusing “morality” with something other than submission to God!
I suspect you stopped believing in (certain notions of) ‘moral realism’ upon your deconversion, as did I, but did you stop thinking that people had reasons for action to praise, condemn, reward, and punish others’ desires and actions? Did you suddenly acquire desires to do great harm, and lose desires to see others prosper?