RE: Morality
June 12, 2013 at 10:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2013 at 10:45 pm by crud.)
I'm not trying to portray atheists as walking future murderers, at all! - I tried to make that clear in the original post
In fact, I think in most cases atheists are actually more moral than the theists... because they don't just take their morals from a book, they take them straight from "the heart".
what I'm asking is, what does "from the heart" actually mean?
This sense of what is right and what is wrong, where does it come from?
If ultimately where just pieces of matter, fighting for pleasure and survival.. Then why most of us feel the need to go out of our way to help others?
And why are social Darwinian mentalitys (like Hitlers) seen as wrong?
I know this must just sound like the rhetoric you've all heard from the theists.... but it seems to me they actually have a point here
In fact, I think in most cases atheists are actually more moral than the theists... because they don't just take their morals from a book, they take them straight from "the heart".
what I'm asking is, what does "from the heart" actually mean?
This sense of what is right and what is wrong, where does it come from?
If ultimately where just pieces of matter, fighting for pleasure and survival.. Then why most of us feel the need to go out of our way to help others?
And why are social Darwinian mentalitys (like Hitlers) seen as wrong?
I know this must just sound like the rhetoric you've all heard from the theists.... but it seems to me they actually have a point here
