I feel i need to comment here and if any of the regulars get mad at me for jumping in i apologize in advance. But i have seen the argument going before and it gets on my nerves. To all of you religious nuts who read this(no that does not mean all religious people are. I know some that dont think like this) Atheism is NOT a religion. Its not some big view you can classify people under. I do not believe believe in a god. Which gets me referred to as a atheist. Thats it. Thats where it stops. I could have no similarity with anyone else on this forum for all i know. I do not have moral code along with every other atheist. I feel different ways about certain things because of experiences in my life.....added to that. You keep stating that if there is not god then why is there a moral right and wrong and so on so forth. Why do we have laws. In my opinion. We have them because of different trials in our past. Im sure at some point there was a group of people who lived without laws. Without government. And im sure that was complete chaos. I would love to see the population growth rate from that. People have and are "experimenting" over time to see what works. Its also gone to the exact opposite. Take hitler for example. One person. Full control. I believe everyone saw how well that went. Needless to say in my opinion. We have no "divine" moral code. We have mindsets and concepts which have changed and evolved since the beginning. Passed down in the raising of each generation.....i believe thats enough of my rant for now. Whether or not i reply after this will depend hows things go.
Thanks for reading
Thanks for reading