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Originally Posted by hairy_Palms  the moral argument is one i find very demeaning, and obnoxious, the general line of there argument goes
1) morals are from god
2) atheists have no god
3) therefore atheists have no morals
the love argument is used the same way,
1) love is from god
2) atheists have no god
3) therefore atheists cannot love
both of which are totally ridiculous. |
You tend to see this argument from people who also seem to espouse the rather confusing idea that everyone is right.
It goes something like this:
"I am a Christian, so when I die I go to heaven. When a Hindu dies, he gets reincarnated. When an atheist dies, nothing happens."
This completely misses the point- an atheist is precisely as "godless" as a Christian or Hindu is- either they all are or they all aren't. The argument regarding morality and love are both utter nonsense- either morality and love were given to us by a divine being, or they are innate due to evolution, social conditioning, or something else. They're conflicting positions-
god XOR (evolution or social conditioning or some other things)