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Tip #27 You Minus Faith Does Not Equal Me
Jul. 26th, 2015 12:37 pm"If there is no God, if we are the result of blind forces and composed only of the material, then there is no reason not to kill people. After all, there is nothing inherently better about them than rocks."
You may have heard words to that effect. You may have said words to that effect. And, you may have hastened to add that you're not saying atheists cannot have moral values or care about people... just that they have to borrow from you in order to do so.
To be clear, I can see how, for a person of faith, the idea that all persons are children of God can be, in the ideal, a useful reminder. Ideally, it would lead one to treat all persons with a high level of respect and concern... Ideally.
The problem comes in when you assume that this is the only way in which anybody can have any regard for anybody... ever.
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You may have heard words to that effect. You may have said words to that effect. And, you may have hastened to add that you're not saying atheists cannot have moral values or care about people... just that they have to borrow from you in order to do so.
To be clear, I can see how, for a person of faith, the idea that all persons are children of God can be, in the ideal, a useful reminder. Ideally, it would lead one to treat all persons with a high level of respect and concern... Ideally.
The problem comes in when you assume that this is the only way in which anybody can have any regard for anybody... ever.
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