The boasts of atheists (Atheist self-deception)

If a person who breaks even the smallest piece of the law is considered to have broken all of it I fail to see much by way of distinction. If there is then I have know way of knowing how to draw it in any useful sense. By the same subjective standards that the world sees Hitler as throughly evil, I wouldn't have been the worst in the world. In practice, I am far worse than the world would have me pegged at. I'm not really in a position to comment to be honest. Bankruptcy is sufficient to go on. I didn't present it in humility. I was stating that I am what I am - as a matter of fact, so that my saying a person is a sinner (for example: in discussion here) might not be taken as my speaking in condescending fashion. That's allEdited by iano, : No reason given.

And not only that, Many christians boast on how humble they are.

I'll remember to ask the JW who occasionally calls round next time he does so. I gather they live a pseudo-monastic life (what with all the chruch activity they seem to have to get involved in). Perhaps they equate monasticism with sinlessness. Hmmm?

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If a person who breaks even the smallest piece of the law is considered to have broken all of it I fail to see much by way of distinction.

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Which is a big "if". It is an obvious injustice to consider someone guilty of an offence that they have not committed. Thus it is clearly unjust to hold that someone who has broken one part of the Law has broken all of it.But that's off-topic for this thread.

And that is the problem with your whole thread Robin.First, you are using some nostandard personal definition of what boasting is.Second, you are taking posts out of context so that no one can tell how it was meant.Third, why should anyone really care whether or not you feel their statements are boastful? I can see someone getting upset about others actions, for example I oppose those who would oppress people just because they are homosexual, but why get upset about what you have shown as boasts?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I think the sense it is meant in is that if you break one law you might as well have broken all of them - the end result is the same > damnation (speaking digitally)One only has to look at the consequences, both temporally and spiritually, of eating one apple in order to get the idea of how God considers sin. Us on the other hand, we take the analogue approach (which is possible why there is so much god-of-the-weighing scales inspired Religion about)Which is perhaps the source of boasting. Weighing scales worldviews (either arising from a religious god or self-defined moral system) might tend to lead to that

As I said it's off-topic, but your response amounts to "it doesn't mean what it says".And I don't really see the point of your other claim. A "digital" worldview which magnifies everything to infinity would seem to be inherently boastful. I know that I would consider someone to be boasting if he claimed to be infinitely evil on the basis of having once ate a single shellfish.

Everything is relative, dear Robin, everything is relative.

There's more to the idea of this thread than just "boasting." What follows expresses it a little better, I think, than the OP. Edited by robinrohan, : No reason given.

I don't know how you can possibly claim this with any degree of certainty. You aren't allowing for the possibility that you are the one who's got the skewed vision about yourself and life.

But where in any of your examples is there signes of exaggeration?You say: But again, unless you can show there is any exaggeration or that even if there is exaggeration why it is bad philosophically, what is the point?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

The difference between the practical and the philosophical is that the former is concerned with everyday practical results and the latter has to do with one's overall worldview. Just because life has no objective meaning, this does not mean one has to go around with a frown on one's face all the time. One lives as everyone else lives. But one's inner condition (feelings, thoughts) might be quite different depending on one's worldview.

Of course that's always possible.

Huh?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

As I said before, constant robust awe or enthusiasm for the wonder of life is an exaggeration.Saying that one has an exemplary moral character is an exaggeration.