(April 22, 2018 at 3:25 pm)Hammy Wrote:(April 22, 2018 at 1:31 pm)henryp Wrote: "Everyone else should behave according to the same moral system I do"
Anyone can state that.
Of course anyone can state it. Hitchens' point wasn't that atheists could say the same words as christians. It was that all christian moral conclusions can also be arrived at through reason by an Atheist.
It's debatable whether my 'statement' fits the parameters set by Hitchens.
An atheist can easily come up with a reason why murder is immoral (which is what Hitchens was getting at). But an atheist can also come up with reasons why murder isn't immoral. The shortcoming of atheistic morals, is that they carry no authority over the behavior of others.
