(August 21, 2018 at 5:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
What is an athiest's moral authority? What puts them on the same moral page?
Huggy. How do you know that you have chosen the right moral authority if you cannot decide for yourself what is morally right or wrong?
Many atrocities have been committed throughout human history by people who have outsourced their morality to a higher power like you. Whether that higher power is a government or a religion. Many people have used the excuse that they were 'just following orders'. Your religion is not the only one. Nor is the culture that you were raised in. There are many other religions and cultures, like the Taliban in Afghanistan who follow different moral codes and commit what the rest of the world consider atrocities but which they consider moral because their holy book tells them to. Or look at any fascist, proto-fascist or authoritarian government that use exceptionalism to make people think that conquering other lands to steal their resources is a morally good to the point where they give their lives to do so (e.g. the British empire, currently the US, WWII Germany etc).
How do you know that your moral authority is not lying to you?
By outsourcing your moral authority you are at best amoral and just blindly following orders. At worst using it as an excuse to be immoral.
