(June 15, 2015 at 7:31 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The question I have for atheists is how do we know what IS good?
First, this is exactly what I meant in your introduction thread when pleading to use the search function, since we had these kind of discussion ad nauseam.
Were we not asked, and according to the rules, not to 'necro-post'? Most, if not all arguments and discussions on this board have been done "ad nauseam", but we have a new member interested in discussing with the active members rather than just reading unresponsive 'necro-posts'.
All one needs do is pass on the thread and find something new.
As to the OP, good is relative to cultures and society. It is a part of our upbringing and depending on the influences one has been exposed to, will determine the moral values of that individual. And of course, there are always the psychopaths that genetically cannot help themselves due to chemical imbalances or full-fledged genetic disorders.
Ask a headhunter if they are doing good or bad.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
