(June 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This is kind of a spinoff of the WHY BE GOOD thread.
The question I have for atheists, isn't "why by good." I think it's simplistic and deeply flawed to think that the only reason to "be good" is to avoid Hell. And of course, I believe that anyone can be a good person regardless of beliefs.
The question I have for atheists is how do we know what IS good?
Religious or not, we all somehow know that certain things are intrinsically, universally immoral. Let's use murder as an obvious example. 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?
I don't believe murder is always wrong. I also disagree when you say that there is an intrinsic morality, you live on a world where there are pacifists who wouldn't hurt a fly, and others who have insane blood lust and kill without remorse.
I guarantee even on this forum there will be a vast spectrum of what people believe is right or wrong so I wonder how you could come to the conclusion that some things are universally known to be right or wrong?
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