RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 29, 2019 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2019 at 2:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I have a more expansive list of gods in mind than your billowy nothing or the fundies ridiculous something. It's simply a fact of human behavior and history that, among all of the things that might impair or completely eradicate an othrwise functional moral agency...the compelling nature of god belief ranks high.
Similarly, it is a fact that the only way that a persons atheism can inform their position on a hypothetical morality is if that position requires the existence of a god, which moral realism does not, despite the faithfuls constant mewling that it just has to...somehow.
Your own assertion that atheism is the reason that some people reject moral realism can only stand in light of this explicit or implicit claim.
Something is misinforming them, but not their atheism. They would be in a position where they did not understand or could not imagine moral realism without a god..and, gee willikers...what on earth might that be?
Similarly, it is a fact that the only way that a persons atheism can inform their position on a hypothetical morality is if that position requires the existence of a god, which moral realism does not, despite the faithfuls constant mewling that it just has to...somehow.
Your own assertion that atheism is the reason that some people reject moral realism can only stand in light of this explicit or implicit claim.
Quote:I'm merely pointing out that the reason why many atheists reject moral objectivism, is because of their atheism.-and so, in this, you are plain and simply wrong. Even if you could find an atheist to ape your assertion..that would only demonstrate that they are also plain and simply wrong.
Something is misinforming them, but not their atheism. They would be in a position where they did not understand or could not imagine moral realism without a god..and, gee willikers...what on earth might that be?
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