RE: Opinion on this Creed
July 16, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 5:44 pm by Whateverist.)
(July 16, 2015 at 5:03 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: As atheists?
Atheism = lack of belief in god. That's it, period. All other functions sold separately. No extras, and definitely no creeds.
Individual atheists will agree and disagree on things mentioned in the poem, and that's because they're individuals who often don't have anything in common save for their disbelief. It states itself 'we don't believe in creeds', but that contradicts the rest of the poem.
Personally, I'm not too big on poetry.
This is true of course. But it is understandable that someone coming from a particular theist tradition in which morality is largely codified might wonder about how it is exactly that we are different. The truth, as you and others have said, is that we are different in different ways. We also overlap theists and each other in any number of ways in terms of values. We are immersed in a civilization which is substantially Christian culturally, even for those of us no longer practicing. It may surprise theists to learn that just because we are not Christian does not mean that we reflexively take value positions in opposition to theirs. It isn't like that.
