“There’s nothing in that viewpoint that restricts one from understanding right from wrong, or that the “Culture of Death” is profoundly awful.”
Ahh but you just described the “crux” of the matter. If one has no opinion or belief in a higher power then one has no basis by which one establishes a personal sense of right or wrong, good or evil.
Paul clarifies the matter this way...”If there be no Resurrection(Christianity’s established linch pin upholding all morality), then let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die!”
No God, no need for morals and ethics, no need for civil society, no mortar to hold rational society together. Law of the jungle stuff...and in the end let’s just nuke it all!
so true. thanks.
You are confusing atheism and agnosticism. Atheism rejects the notion of God. Agnosticism states that their is no way to know if God exists or not IN THIS LIFE.
All agnostics I know, my former self included, figured we'd be finding out the truth of the situation once we kicked the bucket. There is still plenty of "face the wrath of an angry God" incentive factor to be good in this system.
-Yossarian (FORMER agnostic)