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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 1:23 am
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Mikethechristian Wrote:do atheists even have a book about morality?
It's questions like this that make me think that there are some people that just need religion. 'Do atheists have a book about morality,' as if there are no answers to anything in life unless they are sandwiched between two covers, written by someone else who had to do the thinking for them. Don't worry, I get it. Thinking is hard, and it's much easier to just blindly swallow ideas that others have written down.
(Now, I'm off to rape and pillage, because I've never read a book that told me not to.)
Polaris Wrote:Actually atheists do tend to get their morality from the Bible and older religious codecs as well...
To prove this you must first show that religion predates morality, otherwise it is completely possible that religion simply incorporated existing morality into its dogma.
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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 1:28 am
That's quite all right, FNM. I have a book that says it's OK to rape and pillage as long as they're not like you. Perhaps you've heard of it.
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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 1:31 am
Are you referring to the greatest source of morality ever?
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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 4:33 am
Where did the christians got their morality from when they started like thousands of wars on who has a better imaginary friend? You tell me this buddy
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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 5:26 am
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 5:41 am
You know, I've heard that statistic about atheists in prisons and I don't think that it really proves anything. All that proves is that atheists are better at avoiding getting caught. Which makes sense. When you spend your whole life living in sin, you're bound to be better at it than the amateur from the other side of the fence who occasionally crosses over.
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RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 9, 2012 at 6:32 am
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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