RE: What is your problem with Atheism?
May 30, 2018 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2018 at 3:49 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 30, 2018 at 2:24 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 30, 2018 at 1:59 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Atheism undermines the values of Western liberal democracy, such as the existential equality of all human beings, human dignity, and inalienable rights.
Neo makes a clear appeal to consequences, yet he maintains he's not in it for the swag. I call bullshit.
Adoption of an idea need not be fully based on foreseeable outcomes. If one believes atheism to be true then one should embrace/accept what follows from that position, for good or ill. Similarly for Christianity, Hinduism, etc. Christianity asserts that despite natural physical differences in ability, health, intelligence, strength etc. or circumstantial differences in wealth, prestige, power, etc. every human being is existentially equal and deserving of all the dignity afforded to them by virtue of being God's children. Secular humanism has adopted this principle...just because...and could as easily dispense with it...just because.
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