RE: Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth
August 8, 2017 at 3:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2017 at 3:22 pm by Brian37.)
(August 8, 2017 at 3:04 pm)rjh4 is back Wrote:(August 8, 2017 at 2:19 pm)Iroscato Wrote: I don't need to feel beholden to some nebulous deity that watches my every move in order to be a good person. I am a good person (though I can be a dick at times like anyone else) because it feels right, because being and doing evil is a concept that is alien to me. If all that stops you from doing bad shit is the fear of getting caught by Captain Cloud, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself.
While I am truly glad you view yourself as a good person without God, nothing you said provides any argument or answer any question that I asked. I asked if the "comfort" thing was a new atheist argument and what you thought of Christianity such that you would make the statement you did regarding feeling comfortable. Would you like to try to answer the questions? (I am not being sarcastic here as I am interested in the answer.)
Here are some other questions that I would be interested in hearing your answer to: By what standard do you evaluate what is good or evil? Is there an objective standard? If there is no objective standard for good and evil, how would you respond to someone saying your statements that you are a "good" person and that "evil" is a concept that is alien to you don't have much meaning, if any at all? If there is an objective standard for good and evil, so as to give weight to your statements regarding "good" and "evil", what provides that objective standard? In other words...what stops you from "doing bad shit" as you put it? Some objective standard of goodness or just what you think is good or perhaps avoiding societal consequences? Or something else?
Please do not misunderstand my questions. My questions are not trying to say that you as an atheist cannot be "good". I think it is very possible to be an atheist and a "good" person...and am glad that some are. I am just wondering regarding the thinking behind it. I want to see if the thinking is rational at all.
(August 8, 2017 at 2:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And yet, there is no god and you remain an asshole. You can't blame that on your non-existent shitball of a god. That's on you.
Do you ever actually make an argument, Min? Or are you still here just to participate in first grade type name calling?
(August 8, 2017 at 2:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Life cannot come from nonliving matter?
What living material did your god work with to create humans, then?
I never said life cannot come from nonliving matter. Within my worldview the Biblical God can certainly do it.
I wonder how it happens within your worldview?
The bible is not a science textbook, never has been, never will be. It is an old book of mythology, nothing more.
FYI the word "atheist" is not a worldview. If you want to know what an individual thinks of a certain topic, you have to ask that individual atheist. We are not sheep, we are not a gang, we are not a religion, we are not a political party, we are not an economic view, nor are we a collective "worldview".
