(January 4, 2013 at 2:18 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:on the good/bad question you seem to be saying that in an atheist world the terms good or bad is relative and therefore changeable that there is no fixed concept of good or bad.(January 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: Tick one box to explain the position that you believe the statement "A lack of faith in gods" implies in answer to this statement.
There is a GOD 1) yes 2) no 3)don't know 4) other ** if other please explain.
Agnostic atheist.
I don't know either way but as there's no evidence for any god or gods, I have no reason to believe, in any of them, or their claims.
You have to define and evidence your version of god before I can even begin to take any claims seriously.
(January 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: I thought Theists believe the opposite
Ok.
(January 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: Very nice; but in an Athiest world how and who decides what is good/bad
or is that up to each individual. Is there even a universal good/bad or would it all be relative?
Morality is subjective. A 16th century Scottish border town would find certain behaviours completely normal that we would be averse to, and the same is true the opposite way around.
The only people we can be accountable to are ourselves and each other.
To think otherwise is ridiculous.
So you're in court, and the jury convicts you of a crime and the judge sentences you, based on laws ratified ins a parliament comprised of men and women elected by your peers.
For the life of me, I can't see a god or 'higher being' involved there at all.
(January 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: quite the opposite by personal my experience it would be interesting to have the pre Athiest feelings of those who were once Theists on if this would have described them.
Could you clear that sentence up? I didn't really understand it.
(January 4, 2013 at 2:10 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: Well its considered the worse one of the seven deadly sins but pride itself is not the sin it is the root cause of many other sins. The main meaning in the theological sense would be..especially holding self out of proper position toward God.
I literally didn't get any of that, sorry. Not because of the way it was written, just what was written. "One of the worst seven deadly sins but not a sin..." What? Huh?
Theist do not have the Idea look at me i'm so good but rather how can you look at me when compared to you I'm so bad.
Seven Deadly sins is a misnomer they refer to a state of mind rather than the actions so the real sins are the actions or inactions (when action was required) caused by that state of mind.