RE: Atheists Have the Most Logical Reason for being Moral
January 5, 2016 at 12:59 am
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2016 at 1:01 am by henryp.)
(January 4, 2016 at 9:34 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: While theists would have us believe they have a monopoly on morality and the only reason to behave morally, I find that in reality is the atheist who has the most logical reason to act morally.
The atheist who refrains from doing immoral acts in the world where he must live is informed by the same logic that tells him not to pee in the pool where he has to swim.
If you're gross, or you don't like swimming, or you just dislike the people that use the pool, or you REALLY have to go...
What ends up happening, is that you find lots of rational exceptions to generic atheistic morality reasoning. Thankfully, we have the golden rule hammered home relentlessly from birth to forever, so most people don't question it too much. The idea that you could NOT treat others how you want to be treated is so foreign an idea, that they have a hard time imagining that reality. Especially when people live in circumstances, where most people are buying into it.
I find the two to be somewhat similar. God relying on people to not think to hard about God. Generic morality relying on people not digging deep enough to question what everybody is telling them. Or as both would prefer, conditioning the individual to so thoroughly believe what they've been taught, they are blind to any alternative.
