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| − | [[File:Hitler.jpg|thumb|306px|right|The [[Evolution|evolutionist]] [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism| | + | [[File:Hitler.jpg|thumb|306px|right|The [[Evolution|evolutionist]] and [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler />]] |
The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[William Lane Craig]] declared: | The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[William Lane Craig]] declared: | ||
{{cquote|...to say that the [[Holocaust]] was objectively [[evil]] is to say that it was evil, even though the [[Nazi]]s who carried it out thought that it was good, and it would still have been evil even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everyone who disagreed with them, so that everybody thought the Holocaust was good.”<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/does-objective-morality-depend-upon-god/ Does objective morality depend upon God?]</ref>}} | {{cquote|...to say that the [[Holocaust]] was objectively [[evil]] is to say that it was evil, even though the [[Nazi]]s who carried it out thought that it was good, and it would still have been evil even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everyone who disagreed with them, so that everybody thought the Holocaust was good.”<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/does-objective-morality-depend-upon-god/ Does objective morality depend upon God?]</ref>}} | ||
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| + | On the other hand, the [[Evolution|evolutionist]] and [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler /> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 15:22, February 3, 2016
The evolutionist and agnostic Richard Dawkins said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."[1]
The Christian apologist William Lane Craig declared:
| “ | ...to say that the Holocaust was objectively evil is to say that it was evil, even though the Nazis who carried it out thought that it was good, and it would still have been evil even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everyone who disagreed with them, so that everybody thought the Holocaust was good.”[2] | ” |
On the other hand, the evolutionist and agnostic Richard Dawkins said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."[1]
See also
- Moral relativism
- Atheism and the problem of evil
- Moral decline
- Good and evil
- Problem of evil
- Theodicy
- Postmodernism
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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