RE: The nearness to God factor. How do Atheists feel about moving higher or lower?
April 23, 2014 at 11:03 am
(April 21, 2014 at 12:46 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Our feeling of certain morals for example since children - we had no philosophical justification - but believed in them and could not demonstrate them to be true.
You're making up a reality here. Children don't start out with the same morality which they end up with. They start with morals based on a certain system, and as they grow and develop, their minds change and their system of morals changes. This doesn't necessarily mean that it's not innate, but it does show that we aren't born with the same moral feelings we have as adults. Your belief that we have an innate, unchanging moral sense is simply wrong. If morality were part of our "soul" then why do all children mature in the same way? Why aren't some just born "closer to God" than others?
(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.
This is something most humans believe. 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?
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
~ Robert Ingersoll