Quote:If you can't accept that you are a sinner, then you are just another prideful egoist. Christian atheism is indeed the result of the addiction to the opiate we call egoism and pride.
...and I thought religion was the opiate of the people..
Quote:Again, this sort of moral objection is completely groundless when subjected to epistemological analysis. For the atheist who rejects the Christian God based on some moral objection, that the Christian God is "evil", has no mandate for the idea that there is any such thing as goodness or evil to begin with, whereas the Christian certainly does. In other words, play the moral card and you have refuted yourself because you have no objective mandate in your epistemic structure for such moral objections, and hence, you are merely building on abstractions of brain chemistry. The same applies to logical objections, indeed any objection in which the atheist has not the kind of outside, transcendent standard which is needed to evaluate and judge Christianity logically or morally as true or false or good or evil.
But the problem with this is that you say, "objective morality can only come from god, so atheists can't have any say in matters moral, as that would be subjective" But I say, morality comes from people, and as such, I'm very well qualified to make moral judgements. Your argument is based on an assumption that morality has to be objective, and hence can only come from god. I don't believe that you need an "outside, transcendent standard" to talk about morality, since morality is a human invention - hence the fact that our dicsussions about morality, have become more sophisticated and nuanced, as people have developed. So unless you have evidence that a) morality is objective, and b) is god-given, you're simply asserting.
