(January 7, 2013 at 11:07 am)BGChuckLee Wrote:(January 7, 2013 at 9:41 am)A Theist Wrote: I disagree with the regressive left in that I believe marriage should only be between a man and a woman...I believe in God, so I'm certainly at odds with Atheists on matters of faith, (not that I don't find common ground elsewhere with some atheists, like political, social, and fiscal issues),...I'm a Castlevania fan, so I occasionally play a few video games myself....to continually lay blame on everything else but the criminals, (like the regressive left loves to do),...is to absolve them of guilt and personal responsibility....blaming gay marriage, atheism and video games is absolving guilt to the criminal.
I agree!
Although one must make a clear distinction between moral responsibility and explanation- I.e, if someone steals something from a shop, they are bad through and through. The explanation as to why, is for a number of reasons. I just wish intelligent people had more back bone.
Having intelligence and backbone does not mean humans will be kind to each other. Humans go to their deaths all the time "fighting" for all sorts of superstitions they believe to be fact.
There is nothing stopping smart people from dreaming up ways to harm other people. Sell a utopia on a political or religous level, ad credulity and "bravery" and you have instant lemmings. That is not an atheist or theist issue, that is the flaw that leads humans to division.
We do have an evolutionary morality that transcends political and religious labels. "The New Atheism" by Victor Stinger. Read it.