(September 10, 2013 at 8:53 am)searching4truth Wrote:Ignoramo? Wrote:'And it is hard - hard for me, anyway - to make sense of how such features could really exist unless a god exists. This is not to say that a god exists, just that morality - if it is to be real - requires a god.What if this sense of morality exists due to the indoctrination of what is thought to be right or wrong from a societal majority standpoint, sort of the way indoctrination plays a part in religious beliefs?
Because I think morality is real, this raises a doubt about atheism.'
It's a little hard to be sure where your post begins, searcher. If I have it right then I agree with you. Who says morality has to have any existence apart from the role it plays in our cultures? It kind of makes it sound like a platonic ideal otherwise. Do manners and tastes have to have some independent existence? Obviously no.