RE: Atheism and morality
July 10, 2013 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2013 at 5:12 pm by Inigo.)
(July 10, 2013 at 3:31 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote:(July 10, 2013 at 3:24 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: How's about you compose a belief statement for your profile so that we can appreciate your position fully?
This. And also, believing in god is synonymous with having faith in him, so your current title is an oxymoron, Inigo.
I don't have faith in the existence of a god. I have faith in the existence of instructions that have inescapable rational authority. But not in a god. If someone can show me how instructions that inescapably confer reasons to all to whom they are directed could be created by something other than a god, I'm all ears and I'll instantly drop my belief in a god.
(July 10, 2013 at 3:02 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote:(July 10, 2013 at 1:12 pm)Inigo Wrote: I think I'm the only one here who genuinely doesn't give a toss what you want to call stuff. Call yourself whatever you want, all I'm interested in is what evidence you can provide to support your beliefs.
Why should someone that doesn't believe in a god have to give evidence for that denial of belief? If you tell me there's an invisible unicorn behind you, I'm not going to give you evidence as to why I don't take you at your word.
Do you believe that there are some acts that are not to be done, even by those who really want to do them?
