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Date/Time 28 Dec 2014 6:36:14am
'Ethics is not a special magical subject that can only be accessed via divine revelation.'

Agree. But since when has christian thinking said that ethics is limited to just some sort of divine revelation timey-whimey thing? If you live in a moral universe then a reasonable assumption could be that everyone has access to ethics as part of our make up as human beings wther you belive in an originator of ethics or not.

"Ethics is a /scientific/ question, the question of maximising utility."

Scientific question....... hmmmm, I think you are stetching the meaning of science unless you are associating the field of secular astrology, economics, with 'science' because its high priests use the word 'utility' a lot in their liturgies.

So what is maximum ultilty as a concept and how do you decide upon it wrt to any thing e.g. ethics?

"What could a deity possibly have to do with ethics?" What are the presuppositions behind that question?

"Divine command ethics is arbitrary" Who sez, you? Why? (unless you just concentrating on Greek and Roman deities with that statement and ignoring Judiasm and christianity)

"(and considered 'simplistic' by sophisticated theologians, so it's even not on in religious systems)" You bastard! I laughed so hard on reading that that I sprayed the keyboard with a mouthfull of tea. I can hardly wait to read it out to some theologian friends of mine.

What a ridiculous thing to say, are you relying on people reading that to be so ignorant of judiasm and christianity that they will think that you know what you are talking about.

Straw men piled on top of presuppositions piled on top of assumptions.