RE: Why Some Atheists Reject Morality: The Other Side of the Coin
June 26, 2015 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2015 at 12:43 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 26, 2015 at 12:21 pm)PiousPaladin Wrote: It is the natural extension of a rejection of the absolute. If life just came out of nowhere then everything is pointless and objective, why shouldn't we just do as we please?
Morality cannot exist detached from God, and we see this in the godless death culture across the western world today.
Here we go again....
ALL social species have evolved 'rules' for cooperation, altruism. kin selection. If they did not, the species would not have survived.
The more advanced the social species, the more rules of higher complexity they have. If we did not evolve our morality, empathy, altruism, etc, we would not have survived as a species.
I actually do exactly as I please. I rape, murder, steal, cheat, exactly as much as I please. The amount that pleases me is exactly ZERO.
If you did not believe in a god, would you be out murdering, raping, stealing? If so, please, keep believing.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
