RE: Best Living Spokesman for Atheism
December 21, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2015 at 1:51 pm by Delicate.)
(December 21, 2015 at 8:02 am)Nontheist Wrote: What about the point he makes about taking responsibility for your own actions, and not relying on a belief in a sacrifice to get you into heaven?
A fair point and a better way to live your life.
Here he's wrong because he's ignorant of WHY "belief in a sacrifice" is said to be necessary by Christianity.
Taking responsibility for one's own actions entails almost-guaranteed ethical failure, because nobody, including atheists, can take full ethical responsibility for their actions such that they either make no ethical missteps, or correct every ethical misstep appropriately.
And the proof of this is in your own life. Think of how many times you've done wrong and haven't rectified it. How you've gone easy on yourself. Allowed yourself to do things that you know, on another level, you shouldn't do.
Do you think any atheist is capable of living a life free of unrectified moral failings?
Reality says it's impossible. Thus reality says Dawkins' point is impossible.
