The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

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[robvalue]

10) Thought you were someone else
11) Keyboard pissing me off
12) Atheist rage
13) Soulless projection

[Catholic_Lady]

[Neo-Scholastic]

In what way, as an atheist, would you have said that man is less than perfect? What is the standard?

In the sense that people are far less than what they could actually be. So much unfulfilled potential. But you ask a very good question. By what standard can an atheist make value judgments? It took me a while to realize that the moral theory of the Nichomachean Ethics that I espoused presupposed such a standard that, as an ontological naturalist, I could not supply.

[abaris]

In the sense that people are far less than what they could actually be. So much unfulfilled potential.

No, people are less than perfect because we have nukes but still follow our competitive ape instincts. Breast pounding is much more popular than actually looking for an agreement. That goes for politics as well as economics as well as individual relations.

[Cyberman]

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp; or what's a heaven for?"
-- Robert Browning

I think you're selling the human capacity to be human somewhat short, Chad.

[Mudhammam]

[Homeless Nutter]

In the sense that people are far less than what they could actually be. So much unfulfilled potential. [...]

How do you figure that?  You're comparing real people, living in a real, complex world to some naive, childish idea of humans, that you got from fairy-tales about princes, knights and wizards. It's a misanthropic view, typical for people who prefer to live in a fantasy world, rather than the real one.

It's like that retarded idea, that humans use only 10% of their brains - wishful thinking, with no basis in facts and copious amounts of evidence to the contrary.

[Randy Carson]

In what way, as an atheist, would you have said that man is less than perfect?  What is the standard?

In the sense that people are far less than what they could actually be. So much unfulfilled potential. But you ask a very good question. By what standard can an atheist make value judgments? It took me a while to realize that the moral theory  of the Nichomachean Ethics that I espoused presupposed such a standard that, as an ontological naturalist, I could not supply.

It seems to me that our technology and knowledge about the sciences have advanced far beyond that of our forebears - but our morality has not.

We have better stuff, but we are not better people.

[Cyberman]

Yeah, there's a reason you used the word "seems" there.