Tag: ask an atheist

It was giving me that cross-referenced Revised Standard Version Bible in Methodist Sunday school in the early 1960s that did it.

Many religious people (now and in the past) are people whose dignity or insights or decency I can thoroughly respect and applaud.

Not believing in god(s) has a spectrum of opinion just as belief in them do.

To the extent that you can find hope and comfort in anything, it is in our fellow human beings, and the things they make and do, the music and art and fine company, the hope of each new smiling child's face with so much promise for the future.

The question carries several hidden assumptions. First, that atheistic morality is grounded on some sort of "naturalistic" inference.

In the shortest form it should be obvious: atheists don't believe in any gods, and don't require the precepts of the various god operating manuals to make decisions in our daily lives.

Any theory of life has to deal with human behavior over all our history. It is a fact of history that people are able to do appalling things.