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AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoDo you think only the religious can be moral? That morality only comes from religion? That people cant simply respect others’ lives and live their licpvss according to a moral code?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
No. We are inbuilt with a moral code by God. However, people can desensitise themselves to things or lie to themselves. This is why you need a moral code given by God. You cannot have an moral code without God.
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.
bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
If you believe that an omnipotent God designed everything to be exactly how it is, then its a perfectly logical statement. But then you also have to accept that God gives kids cancer.
Semester3383@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do you assume that a god is necessary for morality? What led you to this conclusion? What falsifiable evidence do you have?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
If there is no God, morality doesn’t matter.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Morality matters, friend, even for atheists like me. The trouble with the “only believers can be moral” standpoint is that believers can end up doing the most heinously amoral things in the name of their god. Like burning people alive for example. Stoning sinners to death.
Semester3383@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it doesn’t matter to the universe. Morality can still matter to you. This is the idea that existentialism is built around: you have to make choices for yourself.