"If there is no God, everything is permitted"?
As an agnostic, I believe this is true. This is why I am a "defender of the faith".
(I don't think my agnosticism is a badge of honor, or intellectuality, or superiority. I think of it more as a curse - I am bereft of the "gift of faith".)
Now I contend that westerners who say that they are atheists...but still "good" people, are clueless idiots.
They grew up in a Christian countries, were taught from their earliest years the Christian concept of Goodness - if not by their Christian parents particularly, then certainly by the society at large whose entire basis of law and culture is the Christian Ten Commandments, The Christian Bible, The Christian Morality Code, Christian Myths, Christian History, The Christian Calendar, Christian Holidays...and all that they imply.
And, having completely internalized it all, they proclaim that this "internal" goodness is innate! They are often actually heard claiming that it is a is a product of their humanism, uncluttered by superstitions of religion.
Seriously, how stupid can they be?
There is no way to demonstrate any such thing unless one can find a way to raise children in an environment totally free of Christian influence...and see just how "moral" they end up.
Oh, wait...there are just such places: Anywhere atheistic Communism has a multigenerational hold on the government and culture...maybe like North Korea and China.
You get rid of God...and that's the kind of "morality" you get: Where "Everything is permitted" to rulers no matter how brutal or cruel, how inhuman, inhumane, unjust or evil.
Time to stop letting atheists get away with their absurd, anti-historical, disproven, fictional slam on faith, and alligator tears over "All the people have been killed in the name of religion".
We know without question that MILLIONS more people have been killed by the atheist Communists in the 20th century than all the "religious wars" in all of human history combined.
It's time we stop ceding the floor to atheists who want believers to "shut up"...They don't have a rational leg to stand on. And it it their "beliefs" that are the worst kind of baseless superstition!
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The Gunslinger
I can't put my finger on the exact date but a time arose in my life when I realized the Ten Commandments were not just a moral code but a guide to happiness. I also concluded that the Ten Commandments were beyond human wisdom and must have a divine source. My belief in God before that time was based mostly on my understanding and awe of the universe from my study of the physical sciences - it was too incredible to just be an accident. It was the transcendent wisdom of the Ten Commandments that soldified my faith.
ReplyDeleteEnvy is probably the most difficult vice to shake and is the fuel of left wing politics. Once you reach the point where you don't care what others have that you don't have, your entire outlook on life changes. Atheists reserve the "right" to make their own rules as they go and envy always seems to be an important part of their "theology."
When I was investigating Church after my 2001 "conversion" to Conservatism, I had for a time a smart Pastor who taught me the same lesson, that the 10 Commandments were a road map to happiness...a way to stay on the solid path, and not fall off either side into the swamp that would catch and drown you, and keep you from reaching your best happiness.
DeleteThey aren't the Demands of OBEDIENCE of an unreasonable God.
They are "Fatherly" advice on how to live a successful and happy life!
Really changes their aspect when viewed from that perspective.