atheism and children

[Alex K]

It would be more useful if you read my entire text instead of bolding selected pieces to show how I allegedly come across, which I don't really understand. My position is more differentiated than your cartoon version of it where A must be better than C lol. I'm not saying you are a bad person either, I'm sure you're great actually. But you are good, in my opinion, not for the reasons you provide, but despite of it - you give yourself too little credit

I haven't just stated things either, I have given arguments which you ignore.

Now, there's a difference between "personal opinion and societal norm" and the empathy and instincts most of us share because we are all humans. The latter is a much stronger bond. That being said, societal norm plays a role, and when I say that A or B are moral or immoral, I can't help but speak as someone who was shaped by society. Nature vs. Nurture, who knows The problem is that you do, too, but you don't admit it! What Christians thought was the right thing to do has changed a lot over the past 2000 years, and changes from place to place. Why? Because we're not so different. Christians change around what their God wants all the time to better fit the sensibilities of the time, to be compatible with social norms - because even if you don't admit it, what your God says in your book fortunately does not play the major role in how you obtain your morals, you just cherry pick some pieces out of it, sometimes with fatal consequences, see condoms, HIV and overpopulation.