(September 12, 2021 at 11:34 am)Ahriman Wrote: Why? People aren't obliged to be moral, with or without God. I used to know two atheist brothers (in real life) who would hold you at knife point if you had nice shoes. I'm pretty sure they didn't feel "obliged to be moral".
Point of distinction here. Being an atheist does not in anyway convey what sort of ethics one has; it just indicates what they believe in regarding gods and the afterlife. What I mean when I say "atheists" is usually meaning humanists. We are atheists who adhere to a humanist philosophy because atheism is not in itself a philosophy at all.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller