RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 1:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2012 at 1:26 am by Faith No More.)
Mikethechristian Wrote:do atheists even have a book about morality?
It's questions like this that make me think that there are some people that just need religion. 'Do atheists have a book about morality,' as if there are no answers to anything in life unless they are sandwiched between two covers, written by someone else who had to do the thinking for them. Don't worry, I get it. Thinking is hard, and it's much easier to just blindly swallow ideas that others have written down.
(Now, I'm off to rape and pillage, because I've never read a book that told me not to.)
Polaris Wrote:Actually atheists do tend to get their morality from the Bible and older religious codecs as well...
To prove this you must first show that religion predates morality, otherwise it is completely possible that religion simply incorporated existing morality into its dogma.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell