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Your moral compass
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 RE: Your moral compass
September 23, 2016 at 5:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2016 at 5:29 am by lugal ki en.)
"(it can make you feel ashamed of being an atheist)"
The actions of some do not define the whole, I'd never feel ashamed of my disbelief in damaging and ridiculous beliefs.  (September 23, 2016 at 5:27 am)mcolafson Wrote: In other words, in equal circumstances Christians/Catholics are better than atheists, because Christians/Catholics have moral compass. So sayeth the people that just so happen to be on the side they've decided is morally upstanding.  Seriously, what is your endgame here? Because I know you're not stupid enough to present a biased source like that without knowing you'll be called out on it. 
If a true psycopath suddenly becomes "moral" (some form of religious subjective morality) it seems to me they're either pretending to do so pragmatically, or else an intangible threat/promise is enough to make them conform. Either way, it's not too impressive. Dealing with psycopaths in society is hard, but manipulating and scaring them isn't the best way IMO.
 (September 23, 2016 at 5:29 am)Esquilax Wrote:(September 23, 2016 at 5:27 am)mcolafson Wrote: In other words, in equal circumstances Christians/Catholics are better than atheists, because Christians/Catholics have moral compass. Oh, it's probably because being born in a Soviet-bloc country I am well-accustomed to Communist and atheist propaganda. But I have not seen it reversed. Of course, it is biased. Is it what all/most young Roman catholics are being taught about Spanish Civil War or this article is a rare exception?  (September 23, 2016 at 4:50 am)mcolafson Wrote: Two days ago I read a post about (American) liberals, Moral compass? Interesting, I had no idea morality was electromagnetic in nature...  I can't help but notice, that the post in question doesn't mention muslim moral compass. Is it because their moral compass tends to guide them into buildings? That tells us all we need to know, doesn't it? Essentially - just some conservative sh*t-stain spewing vacuous, self-righteous, bullsh*t rhetoric, as they do. Nothing particularly worthy of attention, really.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
RE: Your moral compass
September 23, 2016 at 11:13 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2016 at 11:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 23, 2016 at 5:12 am)mcolafson Wrote: That is because you and me are bound by human laws (that were drawn by religious people with moral compass). The list of potential victims would be short, on a deserted island.  The notion that atheists have no moral compass is an effect of a centuries long argument from consequences levied by a certain subset of the religious. Without god, they say, there is no morality. Ergo, to some of them...an atheist has no moral compass. Whereas others prefer to claim that an atheist's moral compass is secretly christian, for example. They then credit the god or the religion with whatever it is that said atheist would consider a moral statement. It's all a bunch of horseshit, but it appeals to smug assholes like you wouldn't believe, lol.
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My moral compass is in a cupboard next to my fanny magnet.
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