Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?
June 2, 2017 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2017 at 6:05 pm by Valyza1.)
(June 2, 2017 at 5:42 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Oh, that's not for me to decide, for you...but...in my opinion?. So can a non-believer.
An earnest believer can do things from a position of good intentions that are, objectively, horrifying.
Quote:I think that A is just a good man doing what he was told was right, by some nutter. C doesn't have that. He can;t say that god wanted hoim to do that, or that society told him to do that, or..really, anything, he's just a fucking terrible person.They both want what's best for their families and they both think that killing their families is what's best for them. A thinks his family is going to meet Jesus in Heaven, C thinks he's sparing his family the pain of living in this terrible world. It isn't necessarily the case that without religion, A is a better person than C. Christopher Hitchens offered this same situation in a different form, and it seems to presume that religious behavior is not a product of a person's character and is entirely due to the religion. That if only the religion didn't exist, this need on the person's part would not be filled by some other equally powerful belief system. There's actually no reason to presume this. And there's no way to test it, either, because we only live in one reality, and can't observe two alternate ones.
