Right, and yet atheists aren't out doing terrible things in droves, so obviously your reasoning is flawed.
Ever hear of the social contract?
Here, let me google that for you!
We don't need any higher power to not do "bad" things. Even though you don't know it, neither do you. If God and the threat of hell are the only things preventing you from raping and murdering, then you need help.
What is considered evil and bad is constantly changing and...evolving...hehe, in different societies. If you had been born in the middle ages, it would have been socially acceptable, and NOT condemned even by the church, to kill someone who had wronged you, say, raped your virgin daughter or stolen your sheep. Yep, no trial needed, murder them. BUT if you had fed them in your house first, then it would suddenly become evil to kill them. Makes no sense to us, but that's because the social contract has evolved.
If you could time travel forward 100 years, you probably would hardly recognize what you call "morality", because it is constantly changing.
Oh, and I agree, humans only worth is that which we give ourselves. Its a lot harder when it's up to us, and not magic sky daddy to be worth something. I have to do it myself. Christians (and some other religions) take the cop out easy way to "self worth".
Ever hear of the social contract?
Here, let me google that for you!
We don't need any higher power to not do "bad" things. Even though you don't know it, neither do you. If God and the threat of hell are the only things preventing you from raping and murdering, then you need help.
What is considered evil and bad is constantly changing and...evolving...hehe, in different societies. If you had been born in the middle ages, it would have been socially acceptable, and NOT condemned even by the church, to kill someone who had wronged you, say, raped your virgin daughter or stolen your sheep. Yep, no trial needed, murder them. BUT if you had fed them in your house first, then it would suddenly become evil to kill them. Makes no sense to us, but that's because the social contract has evolved.
If you could time travel forward 100 years, you probably would hardly recognize what you call "morality", because it is constantly changing.
Oh, and I agree, humans only worth is that which we give ourselves. Its a lot harder when it's up to us, and not magic sky daddy to be worth something. I have to do it myself. Christians (and some other religions) take the cop out easy way to "self worth".
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
