RE: Atheism and morality
July 6, 2013 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2013 at 1:42 pm by paulpablo.)
(July 6, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Inigo Wrote:(July 6, 2013 at 1:27 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I don't think we have seen the definition of morality for a while.
From the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
Nothing there implies even slightly the need for any sort of controlling law giver it even says code of conduct put forward in the definition of morality.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
Well, just look at that last line. A code of conduct is a set of instructions. And 'put forward by all rational persons' is just another way of saying that the instructions are inescapably rationally authoritative.
And once again, instructions can't just exist - they need to be issued by someone. And to be inescapably rationally authoritative the person issuing them would need to have control over our interests in an afterlife and be vengeful. A person like that is what's known as a 'god'. Deal.
Why would the person issuing the commands have to have control over our interests in the afterlife?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
