Atheists; what do you base your morals on?

[jstrodel]

Not all atheists are liberal fascists, but some are.

Isn't this an oxymoron? "Liberal Fascist"… Is that like a conservative communist?

ETA: Jinx, Darkstar…

Also Darkstar, "liberal fascism" is not meant to be a political science term, it is more of a way of describing the irony of advocating for increased taxation and more government controls on the way that money is spent and supposedly being the part of freedom.

I will admit, most of the democrats in the US seem to be very moderate. Elsewhere, the risk of socialism where liberals start to control everything is a real serious risk.

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What do taxes have to do with humanism? I think you might be lumping all the "dirty words" together into a convenient holding place, some of them may get confused in the process.

A for-profit gov, for example, could raise their money any way they saw fit - support a social program - and that would still seem t fall within the remit of what you think humanism means - social programs-. Would that be a problem?

Humanism is a liberal movement. Do you know who John Rawls is or the concept of distributive justice?

from wikipedia:
"Secular humanism is a comprehensive life stance or world view which embraces human reason, metaphysical naturalism, altruistic morality and distributive justice, and consciously rejects supernatural claims, theistic faith and religiosity, pseudoscience, and perceived superstition.[52][53][54] It is sometimes referred to as Humanism (with a capital H and no qualifying adjective).

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is the world union of more than 100 Humanist, rationalist, irreligious, atheistic, Bright, secular, Ethical Culture, and freethought organizations in more than 40 countries. The "Happy Human" is the official symbol of the IHEU as well as being regarded as a universally recognised symbol for secular humanism."