RE: The most horrifying journey, this is what doubting 'everything' does.
April 2, 2018 at 8:54 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2018 at 8:55 am by The Industrial Atheist.)
I am an Atheist, but I don't get my morals from Atheism. How can you get morals from a lack of belief in a god or gods? It frees me up to have morals that make sense to me instead of traditions based on the morals of the ancients.
I guess you could say I'm humanisty as I don't like to do things that cause unjust harm, but I haven't done any particular study into the realm of Humanism.
As I'm sure others have said before me, and much more eloquently, humans likely developed morals because humans that had natural tendencies that increased survival rates passed the genes responsible for those traits down. Sometimes it was through the genes of close relatives. So we have morals whether we develop systems or not.
I guess you could say I'm humanisty as I don't like to do things that cause unjust harm, but I haven't done any particular study into the realm of Humanism.
As I'm sure others have said before me, and much more eloquently, humans likely developed morals because humans that had natural tendencies that increased survival rates passed the genes responsible for those traits down. Sometimes it was through the genes of close relatives. So we have morals whether we develop systems or not.
