(October 27, 2014 at 8:33 pm)trmof Wrote:(October 27, 2014 at 8:30 pm)Chas Wrote: So, you are not claiming they were motivated by atheism, but you are claiming that because they were atheists they could not feel remorse?
They probably couldn't feel remorse because they were sociopaths. I myself am a sociopath, so remorse does nothing to keep me from killing people. Religion does that.
OK, so you are claiming that atheism contains nothing that would restrain them.
You got that one right. But atheism is merely a lack of belief in any gods. So it has no bearing on their behavior.
And before you claim that religion gives one an objective reason to value human life, prepare some support for it.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.