(April 20, 2017 at 12:11 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 19, 2017 at 6:42 pm)AceBoogie Wrote: I don't really 'recognize' or 'obey' any authority in my every day life. I mean I follow the speed limit and pay my taxes and generally try to treat people with at least basic respect and consideration. I don't feel like I answer to anyone though. I pretty much do whatever I want to do while simply following a moral code I feel is true to me. Which is all we can really genuinely do. Follow our own moral codes.
You consider your own moral code authoritative, yes? If so, how is this any different that having no moral code and acting entirely on whim?
Nope, not going to get away with that crap here.
Our species behaviors, good or bad, our ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, not our labels. If there are atheists trying to re event a "perfect morality" and write lists as to what they think all humans should do, then they are falling for the same old trap theism suffers from and no, I don't think atheists should be doing that either.
Ultimately humans are individuals, and if you are non violent and value common law, that is what matters. I will vote for a liberal theist before I would vote for Paul Ryan who likes atheist Ayn Rand.
I don't owe other atheists loyalty either. My only "loyalty" is to the concept of equal protection under the law. AGAIN and get this through your head, atheists are not a gang, we don't agree on everything all the time, so not even that word should be used as a moral code. "Atheist" means "off" nothing more, not even that word has the magic power to make the individual do only good or do only bad. I judge everyone as individuals, including others who call themselves atheists.
