Atheist, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Thanks to Dan Barker on My Space for the link. If the music is offensive to Christians just turn it way down. There isn't any talking in it.
Cheers. ;-)
As I announced before, I wrote a paper for a symposium on "atheist ethics without God". It's being peer reviewed now and should be published on or about July 16th. When it does I'll link to it....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 minute ago
Ultimately, the quesion here is morality/suffering/evil as they relate to God/gods/religion(s) versus rationality without supposing a supernatural power.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 24 minutes ago
For one thing secular moralities work. Religious ones, not that much.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 30 minutes ago
This morality should inform us what to do if it's good. That's the nature of morality, to inform us what is best to do. No one should insist that morality is wrong simply because someone disagrees,...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 34 minutes ago
I certainly agree that man is nowhere near ready to come up with a universal, international moral code based on anything other than the law of the stronger power. Internally, at the inter-tribal...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 hour ago
...but the fact that man wants to stay alive is a reality.
It's a reality that is held in the human mind. The universe doesn't care about our survival....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 hour ago
Before reading this post from you, I replied in another comment to you that "intra-tribal" and "inter-tribal" are not necessarily the same, maybe rarely so. Among early...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
Call it "fact" instead of objective truth if you like. Is it an objective truth to say that man wants to stay alive? The desire to stay alive itself is subjective and emotional, but the...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
And it is an objective truth...
That you had to add, "as I personally see it, anyway" is a giveaway that it's NOT an objective truth. I know that this is a...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
Of course we still have those problems, and I am sure more problems can be found. For example, I see a clear break, even a clash, between intra-tribal morality and inter-tribal morality. What a...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
So we must be good to people, our kin, our neighbors, our tribes.
However that alone will not help me (or in this case Trump) to decide whether or not the US should assist...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 hours ago
...those criteria could be - not that they are - the basis for a rational morality.
We still have a problem: there are half-dozen or so definitions of...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 hours ago
The article is from 2019, updated 2022. As of today, the milkman model hasn't reached these parts. I don't know how widespread it is stateside.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 hours ago
For a religion that preaches forgiveness it is disgusting how quick they are to judge and condemn one of their own. After I left the church I heard rumors that they were using me as an example as...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 hours ago
And it is an objective truth - as I personally see it, anyway - that we do wish to live a fruitful life as social animals. Nobody doesn't, unless they are not "normal". I would add...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 hours ago
Enlightening essay. It offers some solutions at the end that I hope get wider implementation. “We need to stop shipping recycling abroad,” he says. “No civilised society should be getting rid of...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 hours ago
How about this: A solitary life in the wild is both lonely and dangerous. If we wish to live a fruitful life as social animals we need others: parents, spouses, children. So we must be good to...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 5 hours ago
Stories like this, don't instill much confidence either.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 5 hours ago
I don't think anyone, anytime, anywhere would deny that we are all aware of being alive and do not wish to die and that we all feel pain. These may be subjective, but they are universal and...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
The problem here is that what would constitute 'observable, undeniable, "palpable" criteria' is still an opinion, on which thousands of people would disagree. Morality will...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 7 hours ago
Of course, "objective" in the scientific sense does not apply to morality. But that does not stop us from having observable, undeniable, "palpable" criteria to base a moral...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 7 hours ago
Gravity is objective because it exists whether human minds exist or not. OTOH, morality cannot exist without human minds. Therefore it is subjective. You might want to impose criteria but it only...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 8 hours ago
I share my emotional story in this chapter.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 13 hours ago
Some might say that AI is increasingly becoming self-aware! Lmao it is nothing more than the combination of AI and ML working in tandem. These are systems that learn and adapt what they learn to be...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 hours ago
Thanks John. It's been awhile my friend. I am re-reading your Why I Became an Atheist. That experience with Linda got me thinking about someone I knew in the church who tortured himself for...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 16 hours ago