RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
July 6, 2014 at 8:44 am
(June 27, 2014 at 7:28 am)naimless Wrote: No, I am sincere. Many people have learnt moral lessons through religious influence. When one takes away religion entirely, it can be hard to see the logic of keeping any subsequent morality. The only real atheistic reason for understanding or forgiveness that I can see, is if everything is physical and pre-determined anyway... but then that also negates my own responsibility or free will and so everything I do is essentially inconsequential, including murder.
I'd posit that your view is myopic, then.
I've found in my atheistic view that forgiveness is one of the keys to happiness: when I'm wrong, I ask the forgiveness of those whom I've wronged, and when someone wrongs me, I forgive them where possible, because anger is far too corrosive an emotion to permit its permanent residence in my head.