RE: Where do we go when we die and are you afraid?
July 22, 2020 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2020 at 8:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
What's the point of being good to people if killing the better man will cleanse our sins? What's the point of being good to people if being good to people isn't what gets us into heaven? What's the point of being good to people if divine authority is aligned against them?
These are all far more interesting questions than what the point of being good to people may be for an atheist. As you may have noticed, atheists (or at least the kind of atheists you're dealing with here) tend to give straightforward answers. People like to be good to each other. We like to feel good, we like to make others feel good. For some, it's habit or nature. Others may lean in and propose that there's no particular reason, when they think about it, they just are good to people- but maybe only by circumstance. None of these answers are remarkable. That people are capable of being good to people and are good to people is a brute fact, and we can safely assume that people's motivations for this are as varied and as malleable as anything else.
These are all far more interesting questions than what the point of being good to people may be for an atheist. As you may have noticed, atheists (or at least the kind of atheists you're dealing with here) tend to give straightforward answers. People like to be good to each other. We like to feel good, we like to make others feel good. For some, it's habit or nature. Others may lean in and propose that there's no particular reason, when they think about it, they just are good to people- but maybe only by circumstance. None of these answers are remarkable. That people are capable of being good to people and are good to people is a brute fact, and we can safely assume that people's motivations for this are as varied and as malleable as anything else.
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