[Ol' Sparky]

That's BS and you know it. If we are evolved animals with no God, killing sick, elderly people whose quality of life has passed is common sense. The elderly and handicapped suck up tax dollars and create a financial burden on a society, that is if we are merely evolved animals and there is no God to be held accountable to.

[Gladwin]

That's BS and you know it. If we are evolved animals with no God, killing sick, elderly people whose quality of life has passed is common sense. The elderly and handicapped suck up tax dollars and create a financial burden on a society, that is if we are merely evolved animals and there is no God to be held accountable to.

If killing off the sick and elderly lent some kind of advantage to a tribe, then the most successful nation in history would have been the Aztecs.

[Junior]

If we are evolved animals with no God, killing sick, elderly people whose quality of life has passed is common sense. The elderly and handicapped suck up tax dollars and create a financial burden on a society, that is if we are merely evolved animals and there is no God to be held accountable to.

Would you like to live in a society like this? Why not? Is it because you would be constantly worrying that someone would declare you "a burden on society" and kill you? Do you think atheists feel any differently than you do when it comes to how much they value their own lives? The society you posit for "Godless" folks would never last because no one wants to live in perpetual fear; it has nothing to do with some God-imposed morality (humans are either moral or they are not. If they are moral then God does not need to impose morality upon them. If they are not moral then the only reason they would act moral would be through fear of retribution, and I'm not sure God wants humans who have to be threatened to do the right thing).