(November 2, 2014 at 4:02 pm)AtlasS Wrote:(November 2, 2014 at 3:37 pm)Stimbo Wrote: What, the idea that humans can do both good and bad things is new to some people? Sorry but I'm not buying that. I refuse to accept that people can be that naïve.
The sarcasm leads me to think it's something I said before ; that you understood in the wrong context.
No, you don't get to insinuate sarcasm into my words, especially where there is none. That's my call, not yours.
(November 2, 2014 at 4:02 pm)AtlasS Wrote: I never said that an atheist would never do good ;
Good, because neither did I.
(November 2, 2014 at 4:02 pm)AtlasS Wrote: my theory was that under certain conditions, atheism would guide its follower to be more inclined to do bad since there is no believe in an after death judgement dictated by atheism.
Consider that, to an atheist, this life is the only one we know for certain we're going to get. Wouldn't that make it infinitely more precious than the belief that if we sign up to some extremely dodgy pyramid scheme we'll earn the extra life cheat code after we snuff it?
Besides which, if the only thing preventing you from doing bad things is the threat of post-mortem judgement, you must have a dismally low opinion of yourself.
(November 2, 2014 at 4:02 pm)AtlasS Wrote: One result is the atomic bomb. Of course the people who deployed it never feared an afterlife judgement.
Total non-sequitur. Who in your judgement was the more evil: the people who deployed the atomic weapons, the people who invented them or the people who built them? Consider that their use, as deplorable as it was, brought an extremely bloody war to a rapid end and directly saved thousands of lives.
If you're trying to say that nuclear weapons are a bad thing, I agree.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'