morality isn't necessarily the rules we live by, it's the ability and propensity to make those decisions.
i would say, in that sense, that morality is universal. but with varying degrees of acuity.
also, mad offensive.
please recognize that not everyone is exactly like you in response to education or in having a conscience that "testifies to them of a higher power".
honestly the first thing i would do is educate yourself on how science is actually done. if you were once a creationist, i'm going to assume you've got some funky ideas about what science really is. i'd start by clearing that up, then find a field of study that interests you and check it out...
just when you thought only religious people were jerks in restaurants.
p.s. this isn't really richard dawkins. please dont call my job and get me fired, this was just for lolz.
1. What do you think of the church?
the christian church is a powerful institution capable of rallying support for causes, raising money to execute initiatives, and make a great deal of change. some churches use this power for good things (feeding the poor, helping the sick, and providing...
i suppose that's one way to describe being scientifically literate.
i guess i should tell the community of anthropologists that your anecdotal account of children's behavior and baseless assumption that basic morality is a 'recent' development negates all of their research and lifetimes of...
Morality is neither totally subjective or totally objective. The word Michael Shermer uses is pretty accurate, "provisional". Basically meaning that while the general moral code of a group is flexible enough to accommodate for growth and change, it's rigid enough to need long periods of time and...
Bill O'Reilly Confronts Atheist Leader And His 'Merry Band Of Fascists' - YouTube
This is a video of Bill O'reilly discussing his "war on christmas" with the President of American Atheists and that's not really what I want to get in to with this thread. Obviously there are plenty...
Magic Man pointed out, and i feel like too many avoided understanding, the fact that it was a result of the "Atheist Displays" being vandalized that caused the city to pull the plug on any display, religious or irreligious. if local abrahmic adherents could control their rage against anything...
my first reaction is that she overreacted, but i guess i'd need the details to be sure.
perhaps it's just that she's gotten away with that answer scott free in the past and wasn't used to any further questioning. or maybe her group is so limited that her use of the word "atheist" is...
first off, the person who made the video did not "face the consequences" when american embassies were attacked.
secondly, western media had nothing to do with the delivery of the "insult", since it was uploaded to an internet site used by people all over the world and the admissions are made...
well when you're obligated to abide by a strict and complicated moral agenda which runs contrary to your instinctual and natural tendencies it's easy for things to slip through the cracks. especially when you've got jesus saying stuff like "if you lust in your heart then you've committed...
i, too, am a little confused by my need for a setting in which to remember people. even people who aren't dead, whom i simply have lost a connection with, i still go to particular locations to do my remembering and contemplation. when it comes to those of my loved ones who have died i hold no...
i kinda tried to let this thread sorta go where it needed to -and then we started talking about Armageddon and cybernetics. so i now return.
i also sorta hoped someone would understand the satirical nature of my post, but perhaps the parallels weren't effective enough.
what i was serious...