Good cannot be determined by consensus. Just because the majority of people think one way does not make that thought morally right. Has anyone ever read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.
It surprises me that atheists would take this "consensus as moral" stance. The major argument against religion and its contribution to humanity often entails some sort of reference to complete independent thought. The natural end here says that if the majority of the world's population was one particular religion it would make that one particular religion the sole reference to decide what was "good" and I can't see any atheist going for that.
So, "good" cannot be by consensus. Majority or not, certain things are just flat out wrong.
It surprises me that atheists would take this "consensus as moral" stance. The major argument against religion and its contribution to humanity often entails some sort of reference to complete independent thought. The natural end here says that if the majority of the world's population was one particular religion it would make that one particular religion the sole reference to decide what was "good" and I can't see any atheist going for that.
So, "good" cannot be by consensus. Majority or not, certain things are just flat out wrong.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
