(April 2, 2012 at 5:11 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm not being sarcastic or anything, but how is it possible to claim the 'high moral ground' while asserting that morality is just a set of arbitrary conventions for behavior?
That's a good point. I wouldn't say that atheists are more moral nor more immoral than religious people. It is all relative. I think a moral philosophy is good to loosely hold on to but it definitely does not have to be connected to God or Jesus or even Buddha. Yet atheists may become clueless when put into an ambiguous position. If a born atheist has NEVER recieved any kind of ethical guidance, or moral role model in the family, and any sense of responsibilty (to the extreme) than the possibility of moral decadence is greatly enhanced. I think any one of us who lives in a city, esp. larger city, can agree that there is a whole population of human waste roaming around the streets, sucking up welfare while smoking meth in the alley ways.
Is this atheism's fault? NO, of course not, it is actually more of Christianity's fault, but what other help is out there to bring youth to the "moral high ground". It is NOT television or the media, it is NOT the church, it is not their deadbeat parents, it is not the government, it is not technology, it is not their friends, it is not presciption drugs, it is not atheist forums, but then what is it? Their own dumbed down, culturally conditioned intellects? I think not. America is headed toward the garbage dump within a generation or two.
How arrogant it is to say that atheists take the moral high ground over religious people. That is not always true, only sometimes.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
