(October 20, 2013 at 8:13 am)Faith No More Wrote: When I hear the "what's the point of doing good" question from a theist, what I hear them actually saying is "if I didn't have a god watching over me commanding me to do so, I would be out raping and murdering." It's an admittance that the only thing holding them back from being a complete sociopath is the retribution they believe they would receive for being so, and that is acting out of pure self-interest. The atheist that does good for the sake of doing good can be considered more moral than the theist that does it simply because of the whims of their deity.
But does it really have to stop them? They just have to ask for forgiveness and they are good with the dictator sky daddy....so really they can do whatever they want if they want to.
