RE: Answers needed
June 25, 2015 at 11:04 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 11:06 pm by das_atheist.)
(June 25, 2015 at 10:58 pm)Louis Chérubin Wrote:(June 25, 2015 at 10:34 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: In answer to question 6, I'm gonna say the same thing that I said in another thread the other day
This whole conversation about "How can atheists be moral?" says more about religious people than it does atheists. If you seriously think you can't be moral without the teachings of the Bible, then that means you are a plebeian child who has to have their hand held through life. No ability to think for oneself. Sorry to be blunt, but it's true. Yes, we have morals, we just use our brains and come to our own conclusions on what is moral, instead of being told what to think.
God is a mythical being too, we can't say for sure he doesn't exist, but it is as likely he exists as it is likely werewolves, vampires and faeries exist. He is as mythical as they are.
I'm not saying atheists can't be moral. Atheists are moral (have a moral sense of right and wrong). My question is why. Universal morality implies a standard higher than man.
I think moral traits were evolutionarily beneficial. A simple example is to think about murder. A population that murders eachother is not going to thrive compared to a population that works together. Why don't piranhas kill each other? Do they have some morals instilled by a god?
