Message from @Ehzek

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2018-06-26 06:50:28 UTC  

I am pretty disappointed in the lack of any really good, consistent arguments against Atheism itself.

2018-06-26 06:54:01 UTC  

Especially on Youtube.

2018-06-26 07:04:31 UTC  

Man, I wished this guy was still around now-a-days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimD8DKiPTU

2018-06-26 07:04:34 UTC  

Until a god is proven real there wont be

2018-06-26 07:05:13 UTC  

Excpet for the fact that Atheism has no sense of unity except for the universal principle of "everything is relative."

2018-06-26 07:05:54 UTC  

Atheism is, in a sense, one projection of the total philosphy of post-modernism (i.e. everything is relative and all things are subjective).

2018-06-26 07:05:55 UTC  

It doesnt need unity

2018-06-26 07:06:13 UTC  

You do if you want to even have a society to begin with.

2018-06-26 07:06:19 UTC  

It isnt a religion in itself but a rejection of it

2018-06-26 07:06:37 UTC  

Which is why Atheism is always doomed to bring about chaos.

2018-06-26 07:06:43 UTC  

And you dont need religion to have a society

2018-06-26 07:07:01 UTC  

Just set morals

2018-06-26 07:08:25 UTC  

If you need to believe in a god to not rape steal or murder then thats a pretty shit society regardless of whether theres a god or not

2018-06-26 07:14:18 UTC  

"Just set morals."

Again, if everything is relative, why should anyone follow a set of morals?

2018-06-26 07:17:08 UTC  

If you want to have a free society, you need to have religion. If you want to have a society that actually progresses, you need to have religion.

Without religion, you have authoritarianism and, in the end, nothing.

2018-06-26 08:07:03 UTC  

Why should anyone follow a set of morals from a god they dont know exists

2018-06-26 08:09:04 UTC  

Furthermore having religion isnt always the right way as the religions have fought against each other by saying another religion is different.

2018-06-26 08:09:37 UTC  

Or that their belief is false somehow.

2018-06-26 08:16:04 UTC  

On top of that you cant teach religion in school anymore. How do you suppose to go about teaching morals or ethics through religion? Through which religion?

2018-06-26 08:17:11 UTC  

Basic ethics can be taught without religion and works more with the law and how laws are made.

2018-06-26 08:18:19 UTC  

On top of that ethics and morals are already enforced by learning institutions, public office and government jobs.

2018-06-26 08:18:29 UTC  

>why should anyone follow a set of morals form a god they dont know exists

ask that to literally the billions of people throughout history who did the very thing you question

2018-06-26 08:18:42 UTC  

it's a weak point and should be discounted

2018-06-26 08:19:03 UTC  

That anyone with any shred of legitimate real world power would follow them is enough to follow them.

2018-06-26 08:19:49 UTC  

as long as you believe that humans are significant and unique in the vast cosmos, and that you believe we have an innate moral compass, that's good enough for me

2018-06-26 08:20:04 UTC  

i really hate people who say we are no different than animals

2018-06-26 08:20:13 UTC  

who say we are equal to animals

2018-06-26 08:20:25 UTC  

we are superior to animals

2018-06-26 08:20:36 UTC  

Humans > non-humans

2018-06-26 08:23:44 UTC  

My retort was in direct relation to his

2018-06-26 08:23:59 UTC  

though i am very skeptical of atheists, because at least in my own eyes, God's existence is self-evident in everything we know about our universe
but different people will take away different meanings about things

2018-06-26 08:24:19 UTC  

If people can follow morales because god they can follow them to not be a cunt

2018-06-26 08:24:54 UTC  

That morales somehow only become valid if god is watching is a ridiculous assertion.

2018-06-26 08:25:03 UTC  

i believe humans have an innate moral compass, whether or not that derives from God is irrelevant

2018-06-26 08:25:20 UTC  

As do I

2018-06-26 08:25:43 UTC  

if someone does not believe murder or theft, etc is immoral, they are wrong

2018-06-26 08:26:03 UTC  

moral relativism is annoying -- there are certain things that are subjective

2018-06-26 08:26:07 UTC  

I also believe that bad is a matter of placing your needs above the same needs of another just because

2018-06-26 08:26:14 UTC  

but there are very objective moral stances that humans must take

2018-06-26 08:26:18 UTC  

lest we stop being human

2018-06-26 08:26:59 UTC  

Saying morals are relitive is a cop out