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Good without God?
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 (March 30, 2013 at 10:35 am)Kurious Wrote: I have heard atheists say they can be good without God. My question is how can you define "good" without God? I am referring to the Christian God. Thank you for taking the time to view my question. I define good through thought and not through authority. Tell me, how can you define your god to be good?  Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Charles Darwin: "A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones. A dog acts in this manner, but he does so blindly. A man, on the other hand, looks forwards and backwards, and compares his various feelings, desires and recollections. He then finds, in accordance with the verdict of all the wisest men that the highest satisfaction is derived from following certain impulses, namely the social instincts."
Hence your feelings/emotions (impulses and instincts) are the only guide that humans have about good/bad, right/wrong, better/worse. We are animals, after all. It's really quite simple. So simple that many learned folks mistakenly look for something more. |
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