RE: How many reasonable solutions are there to any particular social issue?
March 31, 2020 at 7:09 pm
(March 31, 2020 at 7:07 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: While it is a laudable pursuit to engaging in sophistry to solve problems it is difficult to guide atheists because one does not need to be at all rational to be an atheist. There is no "we" there is no movement nor thrust to being an atheist. What you want is Secular Humanism which does have a thrust although it is pretty loose weave, "Humans are important and we don't need religion." As you can see, not much of a framework. Many objectively good things emanate from the idea of increasing well-being for humans, even withing moral relativism.
Excellent point. I’m personally acquainted with an atheist who takes astrology and Tarot cards seriously.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson