Quote: The question I have for atheists is how do we know what IS good?
The question I have for catholics is, what is good?
Is teaching your kids that they will burn in hell if they don’t accept jesus good? Is stoning homosexuals to death good? Is slavery good?
Quote: So if murder is wrong, where did this law come from? If this is a universal truth, where did this truth come from and who/what determined it to be what it is?
Not the bible, that’s for sure.
Human beings determine what is good and bad, and it’s subjective, and changes over time.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-