Atheism and morality

[paulpablo]

My point was that morality isn't an actual thing you can touch or see, according to you they are made out instructions everyone has reason to comply with whatever their interests. the only person who could make these instructions would have to be powerful.

No. I am saying that real moral instructions would have to be the instructions of a powerful supernatural agent of some kind because this is what it would take for there to exist instructions with which everyone has reason to comply whatever their interests.

so to arrive at this conclusion I can only think that you either....

1 you researched the different definitions of morality, read about normative morality and how everyone has a reason to comply with them.

2 You feel you and others are receiving these instructions.


I can't think of a 3rd way

The first one makes no sense because this still doesn't prove that any instructions exist that are rationally inescapable, you don't know for sure of any that exist as you have said yourself

And the truthful answer is that I do not know exactly what morality instructs us to do.

So you don't know which instructions are inescapable, how do you know any of them are?

The second one is no reason to believe god exists either, you feel and sense things are right or wrong, most people do, except you seem to just have this feeling that your sense of right and wrong are instructions from god.