The story that the Bible tells us opens with the fable of an Adam and Eve in a mythical garden. They are given a command, an order, by some god. There is no reason ever given for the command, they are simply told to obey. Well, after speaking with a snake, Eve decides that it would be a good idea to disobey and so she does, and also convinces Adam too as well. The result? Eternal damnation for all humanity.
The moral of this story is blind obedience is a virtue. Do not question authority, simply obey. Despite most atheists claiming to have rejected the Bible and its morality, most atheists agree that we have a duty to obey the government. But why?
The fact is that no one has ever come up with a single rational reason why an adult should have to obey another adult if she does not want to. And by logical extension, no government, since it is simply made up of individual people, has the right to force anyone to do anything, provided they are not hurting anyone. Yet, how many atheists accept this fact of reality? Hardly any. Atheists regularly accept obedience as the proper thing to do even when a government tramples their freedoms without justification. The lesson of blind obedience being a virtue has infected far more than the Christians sitting in church on Sunday. If this view that obedience is a virtue is rational, then why is it that no one has put forth any cogent argument for why anyone should have to obey any legal authority? This belief comes from irrational religion. Rejecting a religion while accepting the most fundamental lie from that religion is nothing to get excited about.
The moral of this story is blind obedience is a virtue. Do not question authority, simply obey. Despite most atheists claiming to have rejected the Bible and its morality, most atheists agree that we have a duty to obey the government. But why?
The fact is that no one has ever come up with a single rational reason why an adult should have to obey another adult if she does not want to. And by logical extension, no government, since it is simply made up of individual people, has the right to force anyone to do anything, provided they are not hurting anyone. Yet, how many atheists accept this fact of reality? Hardly any. Atheists regularly accept obedience as the proper thing to do even when a government tramples their freedoms without justification. The lesson of blind obedience being a virtue has infected far more than the Christians sitting in church on Sunday. If this view that obedience is a virtue is rational, then why is it that no one has put forth any cogent argument for why anyone should have to obey any legal authority? This belief comes from irrational religion. Rejecting a religion while accepting the most fundamental lie from that religion is nothing to get excited about.
