RE: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
March 13, 2015 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2015 at 3:19 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 13, 2015 at 2:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'm happy for people to give me opinions, and I will take them under consideration.It's almost as if Steve just crawled out from under a rock and discovered civilization yesterday. Has he not considered that moral philosophy has been an engagement of thoughtful minds for at least 2,400 years, none of which has depended on his or anyone's conception of God? Does it really pass him by unnoticed that we can talk about the good in the same way as deity yet to a far greater advantage, as in being intelligible, when we drop the silly metaphysics? It's funny how the things they make sacred never have any remote bearing on real-world events when the entire basis of sanctity as a conception lies in our experiences.
I decide my own morality, and I'm very happy with it.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza