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Being good without god
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RE: Being good without god
“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.” Edmond De Goncourt

Unfortunately, people are led to believe that without holding faith in something never proven to exist, save in the book that adequately proves the god of faith is not good, people are incapable of having a sense of morality and common decency about themselves.

I've read the bible. When the author of that bad fiction is said to be requisite for morality to install itself in the human community, it goes a long way to explain the state of the worlds people today.
Especially when the majority of the human population claim to hold faith in such a deity as that what boasted in scripture that it drowned the whole world because it couldn't suffer the human sinners of his creation living up to omniscience expectations .


(February 11, 2013 at 5:02 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: I went to McDonalds with my girlfriend for lunch today. As we sat there eating, there was a homeless guy wandering around outside. He looked hungry so I asked him if i could get him something to eat. I ended up getting him a burger and some fries.

Doing this got me to thinking about doing good things without god being involved. I had recently heard about an organization that does charity work and events from a purely humanitarian perspective. I went to look up the organization and I came across this article:

Can we be good without God?

Apparently, it was just stupid of me to buy lunch for that homeless guy...

Quote:Life is too short to jeopardize it by acting out of anything but pure self-interest. Sacrifice for another person is just stupid. Thus the absence of moral accountability from the philosophy of naturalism makes an ethic of compassion and self-sacrifice a hollow abstraction.

I am so tired of being disappointed by humanity.

BTW, the organization is called Humanists Doing Good
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Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 11, 2013 at 5:02 pm
RE: Being good without god - by My imaginary friend is GOD - February 11, 2013 at 5:13 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Mister Agenda - February 21, 2013 at 4:45 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 11, 2013 at 9:14 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Minimalist - February 11, 2013 at 9:16 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Jackalope - February 11, 2013 at 10:08 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 12, 2013 at 1:55 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Angrboda - February 12, 2013 at 3:33 am
RE: Being good without god - by Anymouse - February 12, 2013 at 4:13 am
RE: Being good without god - by Angrboda - February 12, 2013 at 4:35 am
RE: Being good without god - by Anymouse - February 12, 2013 at 7:07 am
RE: Being good without god - by Angrboda - February 14, 2013 at 1:43 am
RE: Being good without god - by genkaus - February 12, 2013 at 9:07 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Neo-Scholastic - February 22, 2013 at 5:03 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Mister Agenda - February 22, 2013 at 5:59 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Angrboda - February 22, 2013 at 11:44 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Neo-Scholastic - February 23, 2013 at 9:25 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 24, 2013 at 9:46 am
RE: Being good without god - by Neo-Scholastic - February 24, 2013 at 5:31 pm
RE: Being good without god - by genkaus - February 24, 2013 at 8:42 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Neo-Scholastic - February 24, 2013 at 10:11 pm
RE: Being good without god - by genkaus - February 25, 2013 at 11:26 am
RE: Being good without god - by Neo-Scholastic - February 25, 2013 at 11:56 am
RE: Being good without god - by genkaus - February 25, 2013 at 1:01 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Gabriel Syme - February 12, 2013 at 9:55 am
RE: Being good without god - by genkaus - February 12, 2013 at 8:40 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 12, 2013 at 9:03 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Aegrus - February 12, 2013 at 9:48 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Kayenneh - February 14, 2013 at 2:23 am
RE: Being good without god - by Finn - February 14, 2013 at 2:50 am
RE: Being good without god - by genkaus - February 14, 2013 at 5:11 pm
RE: Being good without god - by CleanShavenJesus - February 14, 2013 at 6:22 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 14, 2013 at 6:30 pm
RE: Being good without god - by CleanShavenJesus - February 14, 2013 at 6:31 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 14, 2013 at 6:33 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 15, 2013 at 12:14 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 14, 2013 at 10:55 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Cyberman - February 14, 2013 at 11:05 pm
RE: Being good without god - by iameatingjam - February 21, 2013 at 12:38 am
RE: Being good without god - by EGross - February 21, 2013 at 7:57 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 21, 2013 at 8:13 am
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 21, 2013 at 10:54 am
RE: Being good without god - by EGross - February 21, 2013 at 2:55 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 21, 2013 at 10:49 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 21, 2013 at 11:11 am
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 23, 2013 at 1:50 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 23, 2013 at 1:56 am
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 23, 2013 at 2:11 am
RE: Being good without god - by Cato - February 23, 2013 at 2:26 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 21, 2013 at 3:31 pm
RE: Being good without god - by EGross - February 21, 2013 at 3:40 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 21, 2013 at 4:04 pm
RE: Being good without god - by EGross - February 21, 2013 at 4:39 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 21, 2013 at 4:43 pm
RE: Being good without god - by EGross - February 21, 2013 at 5:20 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 21, 2013 at 5:31 pm
RE: Being good without god - by iameatingjam - February 22, 2013 at 2:16 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 22, 2013 at 2:26 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 22, 2013 at 2:31 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 22, 2013 at 2:57 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Baalzebutt - February 22, 2013 at 3:06 pm
RE: Being good without god - by iameatingjam - February 22, 2013 at 11:47 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 22, 2013 at 2:40 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 22, 2013 at 3:09 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 22, 2013 at 3:12 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Cyberman - February 22, 2013 at 5:15 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 22, 2013 at 3:14 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 22, 2013 at 5:53 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 22, 2013 at 6:09 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 23, 2013 at 3:28 am
RE: Being good without god - by Cato - February 23, 2013 at 3:35 am
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 23, 2013 at 3:42 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 23, 2013 at 3:44 am
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 23, 2013 at 3:55 am
RE: Being good without god - by Cato - February 23, 2013 at 4:09 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 23, 2013 at 4:00 am
RE: Being good without god - by Esquilax - February 23, 2013 at 4:03 am
RE: Being good without god - by Cyberman - February 23, 2013 at 7:05 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 24, 2013 at 11:27 pm
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 23, 2013 at 4:09 am
RE: Being good without god - by Cato - February 23, 2013 at 4:12 am
RE: Being good without god - by catfish - February 23, 2013 at 4:15 am
RE: Being good without god - by Cato - February 23, 2013 at 5:13 am
RE: Being good without god - by Justtristo - February 23, 2013 at 4:19 am
RE: Being good without god - by Creed of Heresy - February 23, 2013 at 7:18 pm
RE: Being good without god - by wandering soul - March 3, 2013 at 10:28 am
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 24, 2013 at 1:12 am
RE: Being good without god - by EGross - February 24, 2013 at 2:26 am
RE: Being good without god - by Nobody - February 24, 2013 at 5:43 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Cyberman - February 24, 2013 at 11:29 pm
RE: Being good without god - by The Grand Nudger - February 25, 2013 at 12:39 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Angrboda - February 25, 2013 at 4:03 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Neo-Scholastic - February 25, 2013 at 6:54 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Whateverist - March 9, 2013 at 11:05 pm
RE: Being good without god - by Gonzalo697 - March 9, 2013 at 9:09 pm

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