The nearness to God factor. How do Atheists feel about moving higher or lower?
April 21, 2014 at 1:58 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 1:44 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Well I think it's innate knowledge. Good actions improve your rank while bad actions bring your rank down. We have pride in good actions because they contribute to a higher identity.
Ad populum, even though all people don't attribute it to God. Children raised secularly still have the same socially accepted morals (or better) than children raised to never grow up, and believe there is always an adult looking over their shoulder who will punish them if they do wrong.
That's not morality, it's fear of being punished. Who decides the ranking system?
(April 21, 2014 at 1:44 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: This is something most humans believe.
That there is a score-keeping card for morality?
(April 21, 2014 at 1:44 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Have you considered if these ranks of higher and lower exist and God exists, that we can easily have a sense of them that makes us know it's true? And doesn't it seem like we do just like we have a moral sense?
We still seem to be talking about completely arbitrary rankings judged by the individual. People perceive others differently. There are those who would rate Fred Phelps as "highly moral," and those who would rate him as an amoral asshole. Where is this universal objective ranking scale?
