To: TequilaJinx
The assumption that an athiest can have no moral guidance is flat wrong.
In my recollection you are the first atheist I've spoken to that laid claim to a moral compass to guide your actions. Many I have spoken to have relied upon what they deem something to the effect of "cold logical reasoning". It is interesting to me that you feel an innate sense of morality.
161 posted on
04/30/2010 7:24:51 AM PDT by
so_real
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To: so_real; se_ohio_young_conservative
I think everyone has an innate sense of morality. Religion, it seems, kind of owns the word "moral". I'm not surprised that most Atheists would choose to avoid the word, just as I'm not surprised that most believers would think us incapable of possessing it.
The problem with atheism is that it is a religion of opposites or antis.
Ohio, your assumption is completely off-base. Atheism isn't about anti-faith, it's the complete lack of it. I'm not against your faith, I don't argue about faith, it's something that I pretty much pay absolutely no attention to. It's pretty shallow to assume that we've got to have some sort of materialistic view of the world. Honestly, that's a religious perspective. You've chosen to avoid materialism in favor of the ephemeral, but that doesn't make us utilitarian.
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