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What would be a threat would be atheism with no morality. Fortunately, I'm not worried about that. Atheists and theists seem to have similar morality.Is atheism a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure theists?
Is atheism a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure theists?
I’m sure there are plenty of fatherless Christian households. What does your question have to do with atheism specifically?Can I answer your question with a question? Is Fatherless households a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure Men.
My answer is your answer to my question.
Hard to distinguish between a Stalin and a Torquemada, isn't it? One had no religion, the other had too much. Neither had any real morality.What would be a threat would be atheism with no morality. Fortunately, I'm not worried about that. Atheists and theists seem to have similar morality.
I’m sure there are plenty of fatherless Christian households.
What does your question have to do with atheism specifically?
I would argue that a certain percentage of fatherless households are inevitable due to natural causes, and thus it doesn’t make sense to view them as some threat to humanity to be annihilated.
I don’t think lack of male guidance will be a problem in single parent households.Is lack of male guidance a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure Men.
My answer is your answer to my question.
Total non-sequitur.Can I answer your question with a question? Is Fatherless households "or lack of male guidance" a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure Men.
My answer is your answer to my question.
Yeppers.Total non-sequitur.
Disagree -- any belief system that is simply wrong is a threat. Check out the many, many cults based on spurious beliefs that left their members dead: like Jonestown, or Heaven's Gate, and so many more.Belief systems aren't threats; individuals are.
The belief isn't hurting anyone. A belief is something one has in one's mind. If one acts upon beliefs is a way that is contrary to society that becomes an action. If a person sits in his bedroom and believes everything written in Mein Kampf but never does anything about it, he's not a threat.Disagree -- any belief system that is simply wrong is a threat. Check out the many, many cults based on spurious beliefs that left their members dead: like Jonestown, or Heaven's Gate, and so many more.
Then you are not describing true beliefs. Our beliefs INFORM our actions, and if they don't, then we hold them spuriously (which means we don't really believe them, we just pretend to because we think we ought to, for whatever reason).The belief isn't hurting anyone. A belief is something one has in one's mind. If one acts upon beliefs is a way that is contrary to society that becomes an action. If a person sits in his bedroom and believes everything written in Mein Kampf but never does anything about it, he's not a threat.
Insecure men.Can I answer your question with a question? Is Fatherless households "or lack of male guidance" a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure Men.
My answer is your answer to my question.
Insecure men.as there are probably plenty of households with atheists.
his answer to my question answers his question.
Then perhaps I should rephrase the question to lack of male guidance
Is lack of male guidance a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure Men.
My answer is your answer to my question.
I think this is going too much into philosophical territory than I'm apt to write about at half one in the morning, but my simple answer would be, How do you know whether a person truly believes something? If a man believes in Jesus in the traditional Christian way, but never prays, never takes communion, never goes to Church, never is baptised, can you say with certainty he's not a true believer? He may truly, utterly and completely believe in Christian doctrine, he just may be too lazy or asocial to do any of the rituals associated therewith.Then you are not describing true beliefs. Our beliefs INFORM our actions, and if they don't, then we hold them spuriously (which means we don't really believe them, we just pretend to because we think we ought to, for whatever reason).
I don’t think lack of male guidance will be a problem in single parent households.
There will still be doctors and non-partner male interactions, male school teachers and other forms of male guidance.
What sort of male guidance do you have in mind that comes from a father that could not come through a mother, a male doctor or some other teacher?
Is lack of male guidance a genuine threat to humanity? Or is it merely a threat to insecure Men.
What sort of male guidance do you have in mind that comes from a father that could not come through a mother, a male doctor or some other teacher?