(July 15, 2015 at 10:01 pm)JuliaL Wrote:Well it is not but when u r an atheist and ur community is not it can do that but when th whole community is believing that there is no god so where would these laws come from.(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.
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?
Let me give u an example if we are the society and we all agree here as people of that society that doing drugs is a personal choice then there will be a law permitting that.
And if we all agree that robbing a bad person isn't a bad thing then we legitimize too.
And if we all agree that incest is a personal matter then we will legitimize it too.
And if we all agree that relegion is a disease we will eliminate all relegious people from our society because it is the law like what happened in china and Tibet.
So you see my point here it is all a matter of agreement of the majority. And the majority aren't always right .
By example the majority of people elected Hitler in germany.