RE: Atheism and morality
July 2, 2013 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2013 at 6:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 2, 2013 at 5:45 pm)Inigo Wrote: An act is not wrong if it merely appears 'not to be done'. It is wrong if and only if it is actually 'not to be done'.That's where you switch rails, right there. You're not talking about whether or not morality can exist in the absence of a god anymore..you're babbling on about which morality is "true". If you'll pick through the rest of that post of yours you might notice that you don't actually have a problem conceding that there are things which meet your requirements that are only "apparent", not "real" not "true", not to be followed. Again, you decapitate your own argument. What you need, what you're describing as being believed in, and what you're arguing for..is actually -an objective morality issuing from a god-. All those other moralities and agents that so easily and thoroughly dismiss your conjecture are ruled out -they're not "real morality".
Good luck.
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