He Rode On Fecklessly
By Mitch Berg
Rent-a-blogger Jeff Fecke constantly tries to ding on Vox Day (where “ding=casually insult”) as in this bit here that tries to beat Day over the head with a facile strawman.
You know this can’t end well – as indeed, for Fecke, it doesn’t:
This is precisely the same argument that Joseph Heller put into the mouth of Frau Scheisskopf:“I dont believe, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I dont believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. Hes not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.”
Any time your argument is so blatantly stupid that it echoes that of a mouthpiece named “shithead”, you would do well to have another think on it. The point that Fecke is completely failing to grasp is that morality is created by God, it is defined by His Will. One cannot judge the Creator by the metric of the created. This is akin to an AI created by a programmer attempting to judge the efficiency of the programmer by the programmers use of CPU cycles; it simply doesnt apply.
There’s more. It’s like watching Christopher Hitchens debate Lindsay Lohan.
Wonder if Soros those unnamed, not-Soros-at-all, nosirree-bob benefactors want their money back yet?
February 14th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
This analogy by Vox is clumsy:
“This is akin to an AI created by a programmer attempting to judge the efficiency of the programmer by the programmers use of CPU cycles; it simply doesnt apply.”
I would say it is akin to a character in a story criticizing the story’s author. Fecke is clearly flailing in his criticism of Vox’s comment. The only moral rule Fecke states that is not based on his feelings is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. That is not a rule that reason endorses.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
donkeyman1-
It was VOX that made the analogy.
The more I think of Fecke’s response, the sillier it is. He seems to think of God as a sort of super human being, who can appear before him & prove who He is:
Which is, of course, ridiculous. God is the source of all the good and none of the evil. On what basis would you not do it? That your morality, adulterated with evil, is better than pure goodness? Atheists shouldn’t discuss religion, they can’t even get the terms right.
The whole question is dumb anyway, like one of those “Can god make a wall so high he can’t jump over it” riddles.