Its funny to find this as the rerun of the day. I was actually earlier realizing that I implicitly believed that there is a complex and sensible human morality “out there” which we are all working to glean from noisy clues of our human intuition. It wasn’t until I started drafting a blog post about this that I realized where my belief came from: it was left over from the Roman Catholicism I had abandoned at about age 10! My experience of my RC training before that was: there is a right and wrong, God knows it, even defines it, it is highly in your interest to figure it out, lucky for you we have an ancient and venerable institution in the Roman Catholic church from which you can get these answers.
So I had dumped the science fiction omnibenevolent monster God, but had forgotten to dump the One True Morality which was an integral source of his magic powers.
45 years since I gave up Roman Catholicism and I am just noticing this now.
Its funny to find this as the rerun of the day. I was actually earlier realizing that I implicitly believed that there is a complex and sensible human morality “out there” which we are all working to glean from noisy clues of our human intuition. It wasn’t until I started drafting a blog post about this that I realized where my belief came from: it was left over from the Roman Catholicism I had abandoned at about age 10! My experience of my RC training before that was: there is a right and wrong, God knows it, even defines it, it is highly in your interest to figure it out, lucky for you we have an ancient and venerable institution in the Roman Catholic church from which you can get these answers.
So I had dumped the science fiction omnibenevolent monster God, but had forgotten to dump the One True Morality which was an integral source of his magic powers.
45 years since I gave up Roman Catholicism and I am just noticing this now.