(June 17, 2023 at 6:13 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Regardless of whether my interpretation of Nietzsche is correct, the question remains whether a commitment to atheism allows one to develop a philosophy that includes some absolutes. If so, what are they?
You do not understand what atheism is.
Let me explain it to you: Atheism is the absence of belief in a god or gods. That’s it.
You don't seem to realize that lack of belief doesn't factor into any philosophical viewpoint. It can't because it is a non-belief. Atheists have many wide and varying viewpoints which have nothing to do with atheism. Religion simply doesn't factor into our lives. At all.
The only reason the word atheism exists is because a word was necessary to say you don’t believe in a god. If there was no theists there would also be no atheists.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
