(September 29, 2018 at 10:08 am)polymath257 Wrote:(September 29, 2018 at 9:34 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It seems that I mostly seem to see this in response to the moral argument for God. This type of response would indicate that they don't understand the moral argument; hence the incorrect response.
The point is that deities are not required for morality. It is possible to have goodness and there be no deities.
In fact, I would suggest that atheists are, in general, much more moral than theists. I've had way too many theists say that they would steal or kill if they didn't believe. That, in my mind, is evil. Evil suppressed, but still evil.
That you are arguing that atheists or theists are more moral, shows my point.
Although if you believe that morality is subjective, it is difficult to even make such a classification at , because morality is based on the subject. You are not speaking to something external when talking about good or evil but your state of mind or your opinion. Which may of course be different relative to the subject. If people really believed that morality was subjective, then such statements are nonsense.
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