RE: Moral Nihilism
May 3, 2009 at 4:36 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2009 at 4:42 am by Giff.)
Quote:Atheism logically entails moral nihilism
Think that is a quite ignorant statement. I have accutally never heared about Nihilism before you wrote the thread here. But what I understand by reading from Wikipedia is that it is a philosphy that says that there are no meaning with life and there morailty doesn't exists.
Since atheism don't have common point of view is it flase to say atheists as a group are nihilistic. If I get you tight.
i for an istant do think moral and ethics exists, we know what is right and wrong. Most of it comes with how your raised but also it's something your born with. To say atheist don't believe in moral is a wrong statment.
But you don't need a bible for knowing that killing another person is wrong.
Quote: don’t see how an atheist can say with a straight face, as he ought, that Hitler’s gas chambers at Auschwitz or Stalin’s mines at Kolyma, have the same moral import as say Mother Theresa’s charitable work
Have never heared anyone saying that, never heared any atheist say that either. As a side-note where acctually Mother Theresa quite sadistic. The "Hoptials" she had didn't really help people and she wanted the patients to suffer so that they would be closer to God. That something I find morally wrong.