RE: Moral Nihilism
May 6, 2009 at 3:46 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2009 at 3:59 am by Giff.)
Quote:I'm merely arguing that without one, the atheist has no warrant to condemn the mass murder of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot. Are you willing to affirm that?
Atheist have moral as everyone else have. So ofcourse do atheist have right to condemn what Hitler, Stalin and the other evil acts that have been made. Don't know why you think atheists wouldn't have moral or symphati. It sounds like you think that athesits are some kind of coldharted persons who are cynical about everthing.
Quote:Oh the irony of the conjunction of those two sentences.
May sound ironic. But as I said, I read about Nihilism first so I knew what I was talking about before I started posting.
Quote: Then the statement "they don't believe in past/current claims to the existence of gods" is a false statement? Atheists make assertions which they hope and pray are true.
As he said the statement "don't believe in past/current claims to the existence of gods" is correct. Atheism just means that they who are atheists don't believe in gods or a god. It's that simple. Besides that do atheists have diffrent philsophies and life view and so on. Those who believe in a god is those who make an assertion which they hope and pray are true.
As long as there are no evidence of any god/gods or any devine, do I think it's logic not to believe in such thing. Specially when religion is just an invention of the mind to get answers of things we not understand. Religion have always done that.. Before we knew what the sun was did religion try get explain it and said that it was a god, which are just a made up fantasy. Such religious explanation has been regarded as the truth until science came along and found an explanaition.
It have always been that way and will always be that way. Religion make up some explanation which later proves is false and instead is it sceince that get it right.