Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 22, 2025, 5:53 am

Thread Rating:
  • 1 Vote(s) - 5 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
#97
what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our mor...
(May 18, 2014 at 11:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(May 18, 2014 at 8:56 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Our morality is in our evolution. "Atheist" is a position, not a moral code. Labels do not automatically make an individual bad or good. Our species has always had the capability of cruelty and compassion. Where do we get our morality? Evolution.
So I"ll ask the question again...Are some behavioral dispositions and actions moral because they evolved or did they evolve because they are moral?

You already know the answer that will be given, and are hoping for the answer you want to hear.

Grow up, Chad. Just because one book is easier to read than a bunch of them doesn't mean that book is all you need.

Actions and behavioral decisions are selected for and become part of a moral code insofar they help the survival of the species.

We understand you have a need for a celestial parent figure directing your morality. Humanity on the whole does not. There are exceptions, and sometimes those exceptions are able to ride to power because of your need for a parental figure to be directed by and subservient to.

This "morality from authority" penchant of yours causes more harm than good.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
What I say is - by Zidneya - May 12, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Reply to Statler Waldorf - by CharnelRC - May 14, 2014 at 5:30 am
RE: what are we supposed... - by Statler Waldorf - May 16, 2014 at 6:12 pm
what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our mor... - by Rampant.A.I. - May 19, 2014 at 12:00 am
RE: what are we supposed - by Statler Waldorf - June 3, 2014 at 7:31 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say - by Statler Waldorf - June 4, 2014 at 7:22 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say - by Statler Waldorf - June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm
RE: what are we supposed to - by Statler Waldorf - June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm
RE: what are we supposed to - by Statler Waldorf - June 9, 2014 at 7:36 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say again - by Zack - June 11, 2014 at 3:46 pm
RE: what are we supposed to - by Statler Waldorf - June 16, 2014 at 7:13 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say - by CindysRain - June 20, 2014 at 6:23 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say... - by naimless - June 26, 2014 at 4:35 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Morality Kingpin 101 11794 May 31, 2023 at 6:48 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  A Case for Inherent Morality JohnJubinsky 66 10666 June 22, 2021 at 10:35 am
Last Post: John 6IX Breezy
  Morality without God Superjock 102 14335 June 17, 2021 at 6:10 pm
Last Post: Ranjr
  Morality Agnostico 337 56645 January 30, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Last Post: vulcanlogician
  Developing systems of morality, outside of religious influence. Kookaburra 28 5776 March 20, 2018 at 1:27 am
Last Post: haig
  Objective morality as a proper basic belief Little Henry 609 201022 July 29, 2017 at 1:02 am
Last Post: Astonished
Video The Married Atheist vid: Morality from science? robvalue 5 2379 March 19, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Last Post: brewer
  Does religion corrupt morality? Whateverist 95 32453 September 7, 2015 at 2:54 am
Last Post: Wyrd of Gawd
  Morality is like a religion Detective L Ryuzaki 29 9392 August 30, 2015 at 11:45 am
Last Post: strawdawg
  thoughts on morality Kingpin 16 7334 July 29, 2015 at 11:49 am
Last Post: Pyrrho



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)