RE: Can an atheist be ethical like theists
July 15, 2015 at 10:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2015 at 10:06 pm by JuliaL.)
(July 15, 2015 at 7:25 pm)huss88ein Wrote: For stater the sense of morality has been rationalized in older societies by a religious foundations and with the absence of these foundations what is forbidding people from being unethical? what is the determinant for right and wrong if not relegion ?
You've got to look at two possible scenarios:
1) You break some agreed upon taboo and your community beats the shit out of you.
2) You break some agreed upon taboo and God beats the shit out of you.
Unfortunately He is unable to punish you directly so He calls upon your community to beat the shit out of you.
In both cases, you want to avoid being beaten and so try not to break the agreed upon taboos.
The two situations are identical except for the unproven claim of the supernatural in the second.
Why is this so difficult for theists to comprehend?
Hu88ein, do you have any reason other than divine command to say that porn is bad?
Would you be shocked to find that there are religions which do not agree?
Why do you prefer yours?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
