(January 8, 2016 at 10:43 pm)wallym Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 8:00 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Oh ya I understand the whole morals from god theory, my issue was with him saying he was an atheist for week but couldn't shake the idea that his morality came from god. That's like going on a diet and saying " that diet didn't work for me, I followed the instructions but still continued to eat whatever I wanted."
As someone who went through something similar, it doesn't all fall apart immediately. You believe God is necessary to morality. You stop believing in God. The next step is to stop believing in morality, but you have to think it through. It's not instantaneous. I'm putting words in his mouth, but I believe that's where his disbelief came to an end (or his belief in no God came to an end).
Myself, I got rid of God. Then morality. Then value, free will, meaning, etc... And it wasn't done in a week. If you even bother thinking about it, you have to undo each belief one by one.
I'm still adding and subtracting beliefs stemming from no longer believing in God which happened about a decade ago.
Stop believing in morality? I'm not sure what you mean?
