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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 6, 2018 at 11:02 pm
(January 6, 2018 at 11:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 6, 2018 at 10:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: http://www.christianbiblereference.org/f...Values.htm
1. Worship only God
2. Respect all people
3. Be humble
4. Be honest
5. Live a moral life
6. Be generous
7. Don't be self righteous
8. Don't be a hypocrite
9. Don't hold grudges
10. Forgive others
None of which are exclusively Christian. In fact, any of them - bar #1 - could apply to atheists as well, and all of them could apply to people of any faith.
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Right. One does not need to be Christian to be a moral person.
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 6, 2018 at 11:04 pm
(January 6, 2018 at 10:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: http://www.christianbiblereference.org/f...Values.htm
1. Worship only God
2. Respect all people
3. Be humble
4. Be honest
5. Live a moral life
6. Be generous
7. Don't be self righteous
8. Don't be a hypocrite
9. Don't hold grudges
10. Forgive others
Where is any of that in our constitution?
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 6, 2018 at 11:04 pm
(January 6, 2018 at 11:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (January 6, 2018 at 11:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: None of which are exclusively Christian. In fact, any of them - bar #1 - could apply to atheists as well, and all of them could apply to people of any faith.
Boru
Right. One does not need to be Christian to be a moral person.
Then these aren't really 'Christian values' - they're simply 'values'.
Boru
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 6, 2018 at 11:09 pm
Quote:"Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 6, 2018 at 11:09 pm
(January 6, 2018 at 11:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 6, 2018 at 11:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Right. One does not need to be Christian to be a moral person.
Then these aren't really 'Christian values' - they're simply 'values'.
Boru
They are the values that are promoted in Christianity. But as I said on the first page, basic human decency/morality is universal, and that's pretty much what this list is.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 6, 2018 at 11:30 pm
No, It's why they eat babies regularly
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 7, 2018 at 12:17 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2018 at 12:20 am by Alexmahone.)
I think an atheist value would be to maximize well-being in this lifetime as opposed to the (non-existent) afterlife.
PS: Why is this under Off Topic?
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 7, 2018 at 12:44 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2018 at 1:00 am by Haipule.)
In the bible we have what is known as the "10 Commandments"!
Don't be scared: eight of them are in the future tense, one is an obvious proclamation and one is a command.
The main proclamation is "I am the Lord your God"! That's the first one.
The one command is the sixth one, "Honor your mother and your father!"
The rest are in the future tense such as, "You shall(future tense) not be murdering!"
The eight then are proclamations of who we are to be as God's children from God's perspective.
If you are not a murderer, bear false witness against another, or covetous: then is God proclaiming to the universe who you are in His love?
Atheists: did God proclaim you correctly from the viewpoint of His love?
God did not invent "atheism" or, "theism", you did.
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 7, 2018 at 12:52 am
(January 6, 2018 at 10:52 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Atheist values list (in no particular order):
1. Baby BBQ’s
2. Satan worship
3. Raping and pillaging
4. Angry mobs
5. Setting shit on fire
6. Blood sucking rituals
7. The destruction of human society
Yep, I think that about covers it.
You forgot one...
8. Upon reducing society to a smoldering wreck, nuking the site from orbit, just to be sure.
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RE: Is there any "atheist values" like "Christian values"?
January 7, 2018 at 1:06 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2018 at 1:07 am by henryp.)
There are no guidelines on how to live associated with Atheism by itself.
But there are subsets of atheism, say secular humanists, who certainly have a list of values.
I suppose you could view it as denominations, if you wanted. Nihilists. Secular humanists. Whatever some other ists are that will help me make this list of types of atheists longer than twoists.
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