Atheism and morality

[Angrboda]

1. Morality's instructions are instructions that confer reasons for compliance to any and all to whom they are addressed.
2. Only the instructions of an agent who has control over our interests in an afterlife and wishes to harm those interests should we fail to do as she instructs/favours would be instructions that would confer a resaon to comply to all to whom they are addressed.
3. Morality is an agent of the kind outlined in 2 above.

An agent of that kind is, on common usage, 'a god'.

I will simply point out that two beliefs common in Hindu tradition, karma and reincarnation, make up samsara or the wheel of existence. Existence qua existence is taken to be a bad thing, and thus escaping the endless cycle of reincarnation is the goal, also known as moksha. Escaping the wheel takes different forms, but is ultimately seen as the result of acting in accordance with one's dharma which yields good karma and leads to release. Because karmic law imposes karmic burdens on the individual depending on the moral goodness of the act, these serve the same moral function as an ever vigilant, vengeful god who controls your afterlife. So you see, no god is required after all.

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