RE: Do atheists fake egalitarianism?
May 26, 2015 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2015 at 1:26 pm by paulpablo.)
(May 26, 2015 at 12:49 pm)Heywood Wrote: For an theist egalitarianism is an easy concept to accept. People should be treated the same because God created them as equals. However if there is no God then there really isn't any rational reason to actually believe that all the different races, genders, or sexual orientations are actually equivalent. There might be rational reasons to pretend the are equivalent....social harmony and such...but is there rational reason to believe they are actually equivalent? It is simply too much of a stretch to think that nature, as a matter of happenstance, made all these things equivalent.
Difficult to know where to start. So many things wrong in this one paragraph. Why do I always see these ridiculous threads that I'd love to take my time replying to just before I go to work? I'll try and reply quickly.
1)It depends which god you believe in, if the god you believe in commands you to kill the infidels/prostitutes/witches/homosexuals and so on then egalitarianism isn't an easy concept to accept.
2) I don't know what you mean by treated equally, and being created as equals, what is the quantifiable measurement at which everyone is equal?
3) I think you're either joking or I've misunderstood you, but you seem to be saying that equality of different sexual orientations is an easy concept to accept if you believe in god, despite the fact we live in a world where homosexuals are murdered by theists because their god commands them to do it.
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