(May 30, 2018 at 4:13 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 30, 2018 at 3:47 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: 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.
More arguments from ignorance from you. If your beliefs are truly dependent on such arguments, than woe be to you. You also didn't really answer the original complaint.
ETA: Also, secular humanism is not atheism.
You love to cry fallacy when no argument was made. Just seems to show that your only interest is to be argumentative and not pursue truth.
And yes, it should be obvious that I chose to address my comment specifically to secular humanism, since that is the form of atheism that positively asserts without warrant principles such as human dignity and equality. Many other types of atheists, such as Nietzsche, accept that no such principles are warranted in a godless universe. I consider the later position intellectually honest. Again, it seems like you just want to nit-pick.
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