RE: French Terror Attacks, scores dead
November 16, 2015 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 6:02 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 16, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(November 16, 2015 at 5:38 pm)Evie Wrote: Ummmm nothing can be done for an atheistic reason other than not believing in God(s).
Huh? Not sure what you are arguing. Evolutionary science says that all of our human behaviors are a result of evolution, and since atheists are human too, that means we are just as subject the full range of human behaviors as religious people. "Atheist" does not denote morality, it doesn't even tell you what the education level of that individual is. I've run into individuals who call themselves "atheist" but stop at "that simply makes no sense". I've met atheists with no college degree.
Atheism by definition is non-belief in God. Being an atheist doesn't motivate violence any more than not collecting stamps or not believing in astrology does.
Religions are ideological, atheism isn't.
Come on this is basic stuff here. We're talking about motivation here: Certain fundamentals in certain scriptures taken to the extreme can motivate violence. Not believing in an imaginary God cannot motivate violence.
Motivation has to actually make sense. If you're going to argue that not believing in God can motivate violence as much as believing that something violent said in a book is the right thing to do, and believing in it strongly and intensely and carrying those actions out - if you honestly think non-belief, or non-stamp-collecting for that matter, is in any way a potential motivator for violence: Then you may as well say "Eating custard is a motivator for becoming an astronaut" or "Believing that all ladybugs are yellow is a motivator for shutting one's own penis in the kitchen drawer". Motivation has to actually make sense.