(September 15, 2010 at 2:02 pm)dave4shmups Wrote: Ok, so we just talked on the phone, but he said that why not just look at porn magazines, why not just "live it up", because you're not accountable to anyone?? How do I answer that objection to my Atheism?? He also said, where are you going to go when "your hear melts down", ie, hard times hit? Finally, he said that morals come from somewhere, and that we are getting worse rather then better, as human beings-presumably without Christianity.
I really would like to know how to answer him.
Humanity today is overall vastly more giving than in previous centuries.
Aid pours from around the world to disaster areas in ways that they just didnt before.
Wars between 'civilised' countries now try to minimise collatoral damage rather than cause as much as possible.
People are far more tolerant of other races, religions, nationalities than at any time in history.
Woman are accepted as equals in most societies.
In really civilised countries health care is free at the point of service.
Your pastor seems to be harking back to a golden age that never existed.
Now is the time that people are at the best towards each other, tell him that.
As religion dies people get to be better people.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
