(May 12, 2011 at 5:42 pm)diffidus Wrote:(May 12, 2011 at 5:04 pm)Napoleon666 Wrote: So what you're trying to insinuate is that atheists have no need for morals?
Thats bullshit of the stinkiest variety.
You seem to have got very prickly about the logic of my argument!
Not at all. I got prickly about the lack of logic of your argument
From what you are saying religious people have morals because some book tells them how to behave.
But we as atheists are unable to gather morals from a whole host of sources, our fellow humans for one? From where I stand it is not a belief in 'god' which is the basis for morality, morality comes from human experience. For instance I hold the judgement that killing is wrong. Why? Well would I like to die? Would I like to be killed? Not only that but seen as every other human sees unjustified killing as wrong then I can make the right decision.
We don't need to believe that these laws are predetermined by some almighty ruler in order to have morality. In my opinion that's just plain stupid. Humans learn what is right and wrong from the reactions of fellow man, from their preist, or their local police man it doesn't matter. That way we atheists have just as much a concept of right and wrong as what religious people do.
Believers aren't any more likely to behave appropriately than any given atheist, just because they 'believe'.
