I am saying that ethics is a subset of theology. Politics also is a subset of theology. All truth is God's truth. We have been created in the image of God. That is why murder is wrong. You might know "instinctively" that murder is wrong without thinking about the fact that you have been created in God's image, but the reason you think so still comes down to the fact that you have been created in God's image - whether you think about that or not.
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1st sentence: Wrong!
No, Danny. Theology may be a subset of ethics, but not the other way around. And, God and truth have nothing to do with each other.
Granted, religion inevitably comes up no matter which social science you happen to pursue.
"We have been created in the image of God. That is why murder is wrong."
@Jesus
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Theology's unsubstantiated faith based naked assertions used in circular reasoning, as so cleverly applied by you above, is one of the main reasons that somewhere after the Middle Ages we stopped regarding all other sciences as a subset of theology.
Meth...
Well, actually gods are more like an invention of mankind, so God/Allah/JHWH/Zeus/..., gods for short, are created by men, in the image of themselves, not the other way round.
hmm..wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
This is a 100% fail. Great job Dan.
"I am saying that ethics is a subset of theology. Politics also is a subset of theology."
My five years of studying ethics and political philosophy at university says otherwise. About all the theology we have dealt with has been either historical or the idea of Divine Command theory, and the latter mostly just to present the Euthyphro argument.
Theology doesn't necessarily mean Christianity, ya know. We might have been created in the image of Ra, of Odin, of Quetzalcoatl, of Brahman, of Zeus...
Murder is wrong because it is ending the life of another human being. That person does not get to live any more, his or her family will be devastated, his or her friends will also be devastated. It has nothing to do with in whose image the person was created. If anything she or he was created in the image of her or his parents.
"I am saying that ethics is a subset of theology. Politics also is a subset of theology. All truth is God's truth. We have been created in the image of God. That is why murder is wrong. You might know "instinctively" that murder is wrong without thinking about the fact that you have been created in God's image, but the reason you think so still comes down to the fact that you have been created in God's image - whether you think about that or not."
The above verbal diarrhoea can (and should) only be dignified by just one word of reply:
Bollocks.
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