Are You Just a DNA-Ridden Meat-Suit?

I just read a comment by a woman defending her atheist husband as a highly moral man without the need of religion or God. I had to reply:

Oh idalily, all atheists who have been brought up in countries steeped in Christian values say that. Your dear husband got his "values" from his culture. And his culture got it from its religion.
Atheism has no—and logically can have no—inherent values. It is, by definition, a "values neutral" philosophy.

If there is no values Giver, Intelligent Designer, Cosmic Architect, then we are all merely products of blind and accidental nature, and are like any other animal, all of whose lives are dominated by "eat or be eaten". There is no moral component to nature. Morality transcends it. But if Nature is all there is, sans Nature's God...transcendence is impossible. Therefore morality is impossible.

You cannot adopt another's value system and then proclaim the other's philosophy—of which their value system is the unique product—null.

It is at best illogical.

My friend The Scientist claims that all our human morality can be rationally explained by our instincts to behave in ways that insure our survival and continuation as a species.

In other words, he advances the idea that people are just meat-suits used by DNA to replicate itself - and that which we call "morality" are really just those behaviors that foster human safety, survival and continuation...like honestly, friendliness, charity, kindness, cooperation, fairness, truth, honesty, etc. All of which grease the wheels of civilization and aid in the survival of individuals and cultures.

Sounds kind of convincing at first glance, doesn't it?

But, I have a question...

If DNA exerts such a powerful instinct as to minutely direct and define our individual and social behavior, determine the moral codes of millennia of human civilization, then why the hell is it so hard to get people to behave themselves?

The Gunslinger

No. No. No. HELL NO!

This is not just an outrage. This is a disease. Infecting the Federal judiciary.

We cannot live in a world where such decisions are made by people in authority. Or by people who consider themselves "normal".

Keep in mind that this comes from a group of so-called "worshipers" in the congregation of a so-called "church." Applying more disgrace to their evil tactics, they also use children to hold signs with hate-filled slogans. Evidently, they think that it's perfectly natural to teach kids to spew acid-laced venom at innocent bystanders, but it's unnatural to inform them that gays are different from straights but no less human or deserving of civil rights. In 2006, in another example of mind-numbing malice, they picketed the funeral of Lance Corporal Mathew Snyder, a twenty-year-old Marine who died in Iraq.

The Marine's father, Albert Snyder, sued the church because its members brought signs that read "God hates fags" and "God hates the USA" to his son's funeral. In 2007, Snyder was initially awarded $11 million in damages because the jury found that the church intentionally inflicted emotional distress. The amount was later reduced to $5 million, and then the verdict was overturned on appeal. In addition, last week, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Snyder to pay $16,500 in court costs to Fred Phelps, the founder and pastor of that pathetic excuse for a parochial institution. (In a display of true decency and heartfelt concern for the Snyder family, Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly said that he'll put up the money.) They have a website that says it all: http://www.godhatesfags.com. The very idea that this church exists is frightening. Can anyone assemble a group of hateful misfits and call it a church?

This is not just bad judgment. This is uncivilized. We might as well be cannibals.

Social cohesion cannot survive this kind of undermining. And we cannot depend on the kindness of strangers to save us from a criminally insane autocracy.

Read: False Prophets are Ravenous Wolves

The Gunslinger

Riot Because "Freebie" Promise Not True

Here's the story: Riot and Destruction in Burlington Store

Here are the pictures:

Yay! Jenny!

Ruth Marcus, the writer, is obviously a Liberal idiot.

But I do admire Jenny Sanford.

She kicked the cheating bastard out!

About damn time.

The Gunslinger