You really are too stupid to comprehend the ignorance in your posts.
Would you say that religion has given us a moral compass, incredible architecture and our most valued Constitution?
Therefore, what has atheism brought us? Pol Pot? Hitler? Stalin?
Morality is all in your mind.
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Would you say that religion has given us a moral compass, incredible architecture and our most valued Constitution?
Therefore, what has atheism brought us? Pol Pot? Hitler? Stalin?
Ahhhhh, the old spell check deflection. I get it. You didn't come here to debate the laughable theme of your statement, just to look stupid. Success!
How do you think you arrived at that moral conclusion? Born with it?
Brainless bloviating. Is morality taught, or inherent?
Daylight63
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Irony from a douchebag that defines valueless with every post.
Go away. Your version of "discussion" is not valid here.
ZenMode
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Sure it does. What things do you consider to be the most immoral?
Daylight63
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How do you think you arrived at that moral conclusion? Born with it?
What moral conclusion?
Morality is predicated on instinctual drives which are evolutionarily developed to provide safety in a social network. Humans have an added dimension in having an intellect that is capable of envisioning alternative outcomes based on choices, as such we have the added ability to review our choices.
There is nothing scientific or rational about risking your life and risking financial ruin to save thousands of strangers from the Nazis.
Everyone from evolutionary biologists to economists would call that an irrational act.
Yakuda
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This is correct. To claim morals are merely in ones mind is to ultimately promote chaos like we see in the world today unfortunately
Truck Fump / h1b
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it's an investment in reciprocity.
and... we are on the cutting edge of moral development, as long we don;t let the evil "might makes right" totalitarians take control.
morality is entirely rational.
you deep state psychotic war hawks hate that fact.
Truck Fump / h1b
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Diogenes
It's not my fault if you're retarded
Truck Fump / h1b
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yes. we're all mysteriously inspired by the hero and the martyr.Your personal knowledge of same checks out.
Daylight63
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"But one newly discovered ant species goes above and beyond when it senses danger. It explodes — killing itself — and coats adversaries in a toxic yellow goo, the ultimate act of self-sacrifice to protect its colony." (WaPo)
"...salmon, and how much their stories are marked by sacrifice—traveling thousands of miles, offering their lives in service for those to come. Of course, salmon are not the only embodiments of earthly oblation; almost everywhere you look in nature, you see examples of self-sacrifice. Is it some kind of instinctive animal altruism or just an evolutionary urge to procreate? Could it be something in between?" (ATMOS)
Why some animals evolved to sacrifice themselves (National Geographic)
Except they don't.
Our moral conscience is in our mind, I just don't see an evolutionary biology explanation for certain acts of moral rectitude. The DNA molecule doesn't care about absolute right and wrong.
There's enough blame to go around for chaos. I don't think most Christians actually put that much effort into living out the Christian ideal. On the flipside, most atheists seem to be reticent to follow their atheism to it's logical conclusion.
Truck Fump / h1b
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thoughts and behaviors are part of evolution. especially for intelligent beings like humans.
you just hate morality because you're a deep state criminal.
Yakuda
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Ill repeat it again. If morals are just in the mind then no one can say killing is wrong if someones mind says it's moral.
You're right about Christians. The problem is the simple minded think that because some and maybe even lots of Christians behave badly, then the teachings of Christianity is bad. That's moronic at best.
Daylight63
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Even though you have been shown many examples. I think what you mean to say is you don't believe any evolutionary biologist on this topic.
Your opinion on how atheists should live their lives is exactly as welcome as you would expect. Even moreso given your apparent cartoon view of atheism.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they do not.
I really have no idea what you are referring to. You need to realize "objective" does not mean "objectively true."
ZenMode
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"Would you say that religion has given us a moral compass, incredible architecture and our most valued Constitution? "You really are too stupid to comprehend the ignorance in your posts.
Would you say that religion has given us a moral compass, incredible architecture and our most valued Constitution?
Therefore, what has atheism brought us? Pol Pot? Hitler? Stalin?
No. No man has ever spoken to a god to be given moral direction. Morality came from man and man leveraged human gullibility (a fear of an imaginary sky wizard) to force whatever morality they came up with at the time. That's why Christians had to explain away the teachings of the Old Testament which were clearly immoral later standards.
People who believed in gods designed architecture and the constitution. That isn't the same as "religion" giving us those things.
Christians have also committed the largest majority of the murders in the country, committed the majority of the child abuse, infidelity, etc.