Do they think Atheists and Agnostics can’t tell the difference between right and wrong because they’re not affiliated with any religious organisation?
Posted on November 6, 2011.
Do they think Atheists and Agnostics can’t tell the difference between right and wrong because they’re not affiliated with any religious organisation?
Some people are – shockingly – idiots!
Yeah. That is literally what they think. And they’ll use absurd examples too, like Stalin’s Russia or Mao. Yes, they think all American atheists are like Stalin or Mao.
Why…ohh i dont know maybe because there old book told them so
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
It’s just an ad hominem attack. They can’t argue their case rationally or intelligently, so they seek to undermine us with personal attacks.
Sadly, there are people who truly believe atheists are depressed and lost because they don’t believe in imaginary people.
Amazingly enough, that is exactly what they think, yes.
That’s leaving aside the fact that the bible teaches a LOT of BAD morals. Like rape and slavery being OK.
Some of those people would be doing “evil” if their religious beliefs didn’t constrain them. That’s the most straightforward interpretation, at least.
Some people are so rooted in their own conviction that morality must come from some higher source, that they condemn anyone who does not follow that source as immoral.
Ironically, they show themselves to be the less moral ones with such behaviour, because they base it on one aspect and not on the individual.
I came to the conclusion, that there is no answer. I don’t believe in a god, but i am not saying he doesn’t exist. Nobody can prove to anyone there is a god. Seeing is believing right? If someone tells you that they found a dollar in an ironic situation. Well, that’s just luck. A God didn’t do that. It was just somebody’s mistake of misplacing their possession. We humans are hopeless on figuring this out. Not one person knows there is a god. They have no proof. And if they do, they cant prove it to somebody else. My opinion: There is no God. There is just the human brain. The bible is just a guide. Something to help you through life making the right decisions. It’s not, “What would Jesus do”, it’s “What would make my life better”
Their morals are whatever they feel like doing. It is called MORAL RELATIVISM.
Who’s morals are right? Osma bin Laden? Bill Clinton?
How about the one sovereign God above all? The CREATOR of heaven and earth.
Because they’re inherently amoral.
The people who make that assumption, that is. Not atheists. If you’re incapable of understanding the reason for being good simply for the sake of being a decent human being, you’ve got something seriously wrong with your wiring.
Morality is an illusion.
Because they don’t know one personally.
People equate religion with morals. Especially Christians.
Actually, when I come on here I am apalled(sp) at the people who hide behind the guise of Christianity. I see more atheists and agnostics on here with morals than my fellow Christians. Everyone is capable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
Religious people believe that morals and ethics were already pre-determined by a higher deity. These complex, abstract ideas of justice, compassion, love are not so concrete that they deduce these things can only come from something much more complex.
I see morals as a developing, trial and error, learning process our ancestors have passed down to their next generation.
Why is it that the moral of being a racist okay, back before the advent of the Civil Rights movements, or the idea or extorting other kinds of people for natural resources okay for Europeans? I’m sure you guys can think of other examples, but my point is that as times change, people change, because it’s a learning process and morals, an integral part of culture, is a learned behavior.
I’m agnostic, but i believe do what you believe is the best and right, for the people and nation, even it it means struggling with your own beliefs, if you want some change you wish to see in the world, you must be willing to sacrifice something from yourself.
Because their churches and mosques tell them that to keep them too scared to question their indoctrination.
They don’t understand that morality comes from within, not from without.
Mainly because without religion, there is NO deterrent for committing crimes, except for the local law.
I mean, that there is no “sin” involved, so no afterlife punishment, so to speak…so what then is to keep someone from just outright killing someone, if they can get away with it by the law?
Religious people have the local law to contend with, if killing someone, but they also have God’s laws, which are more severe and crimes cannot be hidden from God. So religious people have more of a deterrent to stop them.
Morals taught anyone depends on who is teaching the morals. Is it alright to stone a person to death for being unfaithful? By some laws, yes, apparently. To them, that is moral, it is okay.
So who is really to say, what is moral and what isn’t? It depends on what society thinks. To burn a woman on a stake because someone said she was a witch, was moral for those times.
Again, what a person has for morals, depends on their upbringing. An Atheist could have higher morals then a religious person, because of his upbringing. But with God making laws also, it just leans more towards more self control, when crimes are committed ( or sins).
Yes
Atheists think if no one saw them, they got away with it. I don’t want schidt like that in my society.
God IS watching, and you are accountable for EVERYTHING you do.
Not believing it will only makes your ******** draw up tigher, when your oh!****! moment comes.