(September 28, 2018 at 5:34 pm)Bahana Wrote: Do you think this is a good statement to make? It seems to me like they are trying to prove themselves to religious people. Is it a response to religious people who think atheists are less moral? I would rather not dignify that. If you wanna address that argument then bring it to them but to use that as your motivation is low rent.
You may not want to dignify the position that many theists take that atheists cannot be moral without G-d, but the reality is that there are a whole lot of theists who take that position and are very vocal about it. There are some really stupid fucking theists out there and many of them occupy homes or families with atheists and they do challenge and harass non-believers with low-brow, uninformed arguments like that. And they do other really stupid stuff like threatening theists with imaginary places like hell. (How stupid, right?)
Then theists like me have to go around apologizing for that shit.