RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
January 8, 2017 at 12:51 pm
(January 8, 2017 at 4:30 am)robvalue Wrote: And even if they are right, they can still be morally bankrupt. God can be an arsehole. If Christianity is to be believed for example, that's exactly what he is. The idea that God has to be good is a massive unfounded assumption.
They have to be morally bankrupt, practically by definition, by requiring their followers to submit their own moral compass to the pronouncements set out in a book deemed inviolable and unquestionable. It's equivalent to getting them sign over all control of their bank details to an anonymous team of financial wizards, whom they never see and who are only spoken about, in reverent tones, and how dare you say it's a scam, you blasphemous heathen!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
