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MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoMorality 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.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
But why does it matter? You can still be moral and be an atheist, but it involves adopting someone’s moral standard without any rational basis.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We live in a society. I believe that a predisposition to empathy, compassion, love, all those good things, is inbuilt in us to help maintain a stable, cohesive society. They are taught to young children, who learn to share, care, co-operate. It seems like some people never grow up, and still need a “parent” to guide them.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I believe it is inbuilt in us as well, but by a Creator.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A lot of Nazis were Christians.