RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 22, 2018 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2018 at 11:54 am by Huggy Bear.)
(August 22, 2018 at 10:02 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(August 21, 2018 at 11:41 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: *emphasis mine*
Really?
on this forum:
Some atheists were defending a gay man buggering an under age boy.
Another atheist has stated there 5 people she'd like to kill if she knew she could get away with it.
Another atheist claimed if he lived back in the day, he'd happily participate in chattel slavery.
(I assume you disagree with the above?)
Clearly examples of why an individual's brain isn't capable of deciding what's moral.
So again, what is an atheists moral authority?
Theists will argue, in defense of changing mores with regard to, say, slavery, that there being a source of moral values doesn't necessarily imply that we will have an unfailing ability to determine what those values are. The former is a question of moral ontology rather than moral epistemology. That there are varying opinions about what is moral does not imply that there is no such thing as a moral truth. Both theists and atheists make this point, so your questions are unenlightening. Moreover, if morality is relative rather than objective, morals may change over time or among different contexts. That doesn't mean that there isn't a source of morality underlying their determinations. Perhaps what you mean to say is that atheist morals are arbitrary. That may be the case, but even if so, they are no less arbitrary than the morals of a theist whose God pulled his or her specific moral rules out of their ass.
Christian moral code:
1 Love God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength
2 Love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment greater than these. - Mark 12-31
Do you have a problem with the above?
(August 22, 2018 at 11:49 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Hooo boy, another episode of "Huggy's saved posts from years ago in an attempt to make himself feel better in any given thread, but only serve to make him look like a petty lunatic"!
What episode is next? Huggy's saved posts about misunderstood and poorly worded questions? Cherry picking insults from literally 2 fucking years ago (part deux)? What and see kids!
Not my fault you have no understanding of how the search feature works...
