(September 3, 2015 at 8:47 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(September 3, 2015 at 8:43 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Goddamned Christian sympathizer!
Fuck that. I became a better person when I became an atheist. I do not know of even one person who got worse getting rid of that foul, disgusting, superstition. Religion is evil. Not pure evil (as it is too incompetent to be pure), but evil nonetheless.
I'd be interested to know what you mean when you say that you became a better person when you became an atheist. That statement implies that there is something inherently 'better' about being an atheist. If two people hold the precisely same moral views, but just disagree on whether a god exists, does that make the atheist 'better' than the believer?
This brings up the question of how your worldview and view of self affects your moral standing. If a person does an act generally considered to be 'good' because they accept an objective imperative or because in their mind it is linked to an afterlife jackpot or because it jives with their subjective view of what the relationship requires or just because of their sentiment for the person .. is the act morally equivalent in all cases?
