tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post114826507228379752..comments2024-02-17T00:26:27.920-08:00Comments on Deep Thoughts: Are Atheists evil?Mojoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541458916641472505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-1149140351297773972006-05-31T22:39:00.000-07:002006-05-31T22:39:00.000-07:00I am a true believer in God, but I respect an athe...I am a true believer in God, but I respect an atheist's ability to develop his/her own morals and ethics. I think a person can have a sense of moral right and wrong just as the humans who wrote scriptures can decipher what God said. Anybody can develop a moran and ethical framework just by thinking things through. Good morals can result from nothing more than a personal imperative.<BR/><BR/>Conversely, a person who believes in God can know right and wrong and yet choose to do wrong, even within a well prescribed framework. Sexual abuse by Catholic priests is a prime example, (not to single them out).<BR/><BR/>What matters is not the theology and practice of religion, but the practice of daily life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-1148318432544471242006-05-22T10:20:00.000-07:002006-05-22T10:20:00.000-07:00I'd like to see a real development from you on how...I'd like to see a real development from you on how you do develop your moral and ethical framework. Specifically how do you respond to his assertion that: <I>"One who sees only random forces behind why we humans find ourselves here is ultimately bound only by his wants. With no imperative beyond the biological, a true atheist, pressed hard enough by circumstances toward unethical or immoral behavior, cannot feel compelled to resist. Why should he?"</I><BR/><BR/>I really am interested in how one can develop an imutable moral code from an atheistic perspective. I tried, I found that the only imutable foundation was as the Rabbi suggests, the biological imperative. In fact my transition to Deism was led largely by my instinct (whether learned or not) that there was an imutable, foundational, moral force in the universe. Fundamentally it boiled down to the fact that I know some things are always evil regardless of the potential mitigating circumstances. For this to be true, I personally could not find a mechanism outside of a universal moral force, which in our vernacular is called "God"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com