(March 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm)Greeny Wrote:(March 24, 2012 at 12:51 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I have been following this thread and became curious about a related topic. Sincere request: Could someone point me to a good thread that discusses various atheistic foundations for ethics and morality?
Since morality is decided by society and the basic human willingness to treat others how we'd like to be treated ourselves, there are no dictated foundations. Maybe it can be explained scientifically, but I don't need to question whether or not we should stone homosexuals and rape victims, or enslave fellow humans, and that should speak for itself.
Also just wanted to say: Thanks to everyone for responding to this topic, plenty of great insights and the one from the Christian on page one pretty much confirmed what I was thinking. Cherrypicking the good from the bad. "The basic guidelines from the OT still stand, but the mean laws don't."
actually "mean laws" still do apply, we are just in violation of them all of the time. That is why we need redemption rather than to seek righteousness through our deeds.
