RE: Atheism and morality
July 1, 2013 at 5:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2013 at 5:33 pm by paulpablo.)
(July 1, 2013 at 5:31 pm)Inigo Wrote:(July 1, 2013 at 6:43 am)paulpablo Wrote: If you don't know exactly what morality instructs us to do how do you know morality is unified among everyone?
? I don't understand your question. Morality is unitary - that is a conceptual claim. It has nothing to do with what morality instructs us to do and be.
Even if (as seems conceptually incoherent) there are lots of moralities, they could each tell everyone to do the same thing. And if there is one morality it could instruct everyone to behave differently. The unity of morality and the content and scope of its instructions are totally different matters.
Try and put it simply why you believe morality comes from god, maybe by showing the differences in your argument and say other arguments that say god must exist because of instincts, or god must exist because some people have a morality, or maybe that last one is your argument, it's still unclear to me.
Your argument does sound a lot like one I saw on here not long ago saying god must exist because cats avoid scorpion tails without being taught how.
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