Charles Krauthammer is an athiest, and is a pro-life conservative. Even if there was an outside chance of embryonic stem cells curing his paralysis, he would still tun it down since it involves taking another life. Pretty much the same view as Dr Francis Schaeffer.
I didn’t know Krauthammer was an atheist but I’ve read his comments on abortion and they are very grounded, paraphrased- no man has the right over the life of another, be it abortion, slavery, or involuntary servitude. If others on our side had his eloquence instead of just saying ‘it is wrong’, it may have ended long ago.
IMHO, most atheists aren’t. They just don’t believe in Judeo-Christian view of God. Most I have known are very moral people and the most confusing question I ask them is where their sense of right and wrong came from. Where did their strong desire to express truth as they believe it come from when it would be so much easier to just pretend to believe. Where did their love come from, whether for their mate, their children or just some dumb pet, like a kitten.
Most really can’t answer and I don’t press, I just ask them to think about it and think about the possibility that there is just something in us that is more than we see, and something more in the universe that we just don’t fully understand.
parsy, who has had his doubts at times
You do not have to be Christian or a believer in God to be a person of good ethics.
BTW, I’m reading a book by Hayek right now. He had a great mind.