RE: Christians claiming there is no morality without god.
March 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm by pocaracas.)
I'll bite 
The failure here is in "christians who get their morality from god's word".
A few assumptions are at work here:
- There is a god
- This god speaks
- This god has spoken to humans
- humans have recorded that word reliably
- The god is reliably represented by the christian religion
Atheists, on the other hand, assume that... err... people exist and need to work together as a society.
Which seems more far fetched?
Quote:Atheists like to claim that our own sense of empathy should be our guideline for morality. At the same time, they scoff at christians who get their morality from god's word and not themselves. But it's only their mere opinion that empathy should ground morality, and I'm not bound to their opinions. So I continue to ask...why do atheists want to be our God?
The failure here is in "christians who get their morality from god's word".
A few assumptions are at work here:
- There is a god
- This god speaks
- This god has spoken to humans
- humans have recorded that word reliably
- The god is reliably represented by the christian religion
Atheists, on the other hand, assume that... err... people exist and need to work together as a society.
Which seems more far fetched?
