RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
May 12, 2014 at 6:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2014 at 6:59 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
(May 11, 2014 at 9:48 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Ask them what they mean by morality. If it has nothing to do with the well-being of sentient beings but instead arbitrary rules established by an ancient deity on a long lost stone tablet, then they're not talking about morality. If they reply that it is the subject that deals with how human beings ought to treat others, then tell him you decide how to treat others the same way they do, or at least should: by experiencing suffering and well-being and using your brain to figure out how to best bring about results that multiply the latter and diminish the former.
Why is morality defined as the well-being of sentient beings? That’s completely arbitrary.
(May 12, 2014 at 5:58 pm)CharnelRC Wrote: People who do good because god tells them so are not doing it for the sake of goodness, but because they are told to do so with reward of "eternal life". In other words, Theists are robots who do what they're told.
Books and religions change. One century they'll consider a certain act as good, another century they'll consider it evil.
Only an Atheist can be genuinely good, because an Atheist isn't doing it for god, or out of fear, but for the good itself.
Morality is universal, god is not.
Tell that to those nuts and crackers, and they won't even know what you're talking about.
What makes a particular act good or bad? Why is morality universal?
