Increase of Atheists around the world, increase of crime any coincidence?

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HarryStotle said:
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Barnesy:
We use reason to know that what we feel is the same as what some body else feels …
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That might be why you use reason – to reinforce your emotional life.

Unfortunately, that is a rather hobbled view of the capabilities of the faculty.
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Im sorry that makes no sense to me. We are feelings and reason. We are a mixture of both. We need both to be what we are. Could you explain what you mean?
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The basis for feelings are not the same as the grounds for reason.

Feelings are subjective emotional responses to situations, ideas, persons, etc.

Reason is not grounded in emotion nor subjectivity but in the truth. The grounds we have for believing or reasoning is truth.

To mix emotion and reason as if they both have the same (name removed by moderator)uts is an error that possibly taints the process of reasoning by expanding or diluting the grounds we have for thinking something – anything – to be true.

In other words, emotion distorts or clouds the clarity of truth by persuading the subject considering what is or is not true that emotions count to some large degree in terms of what they ought to believe or not. This is where cognitive biases come into play…
What Is Cognitive Bias?

The truth of reality does not depend upon how we feel about it. The truth is what it is, and the better we can detach from emotion, the clearer that reality and truth become.

That does not mean we stop feeling, it does mean we become more capable of distinguishing between emotional ties and truth, or when reality becomes distorted or clouded by emotion.
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I agree harry. Merry xmas!!
 
HarryStotle said:
Is the “good” that is done to others, and hopefully reciprocated, determined by feelings or by reasoning from what constitutes the end good for human beings, based upon the nature of what it means to be human?
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Not to concern w/reciprocation. It comes from the heart…
 
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Barnesy:
Its good isnt it to talk to people with different views and we can learn more about each other and best of all about ourselves.
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Let us never forget that some views are wrong.

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A view with which I heartily agree ET. I readily admit I could be wrong on any position I take. Are you with me on that?
 
Do you know any atheists? I think there is a caricature that floats around in some religious circles that all atheists are amoral hedonists. In my experience, those are few, they are what I call “emotional atheists” instead of rational atheists. They don’t believe in God because they are rebelling against the fundamentalist religious mindset or simply out of blind anger.

I do have friends who happen to be atheists. Some of my oldest friends, we have know each other since youth. The atheists I know are moral people. They live by the “Golden Rule”.

You may not realize that there is a sector of the pro-life movement of atheists, pagans, etc. https://www.secularprolife.org/
 
Xmas is a very pious way to write the name of the holiday without writing the sacred name.
 
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Freddy:
I don’t believe so, no. But I could be wrong…

Your turn now.
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Isn’t there anything then which you hold to be True?
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Not with a capital T, no. But that I love my wife is true. That the Roosters won the comp last season is true. That I don’t believe in God is true. That He may exist is…debatable.

See how it works?
 
Freddy said:
Not with a capital T, no. But that I love my wife is true. That the Roosters won the comp last season is true. That I don’t believe in God is true. That He may exist is…debatable.

See how it works?
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Very easy to see where you stand.

It might be true too that you’re on this Forum b/c of where your stand…

I Know God Exists… Yet God has more to do than Exist. 🙂

Accepting the Golden Rule - moves one closer to His Realm…

Being Obedient - seeing it as the best Viable Way for all humans to be… is more…

And that latter is what I strive to perfect in my malleable free will Being

One thing I learned one day was that I’d never actually gone out of my way to really get to know Jesus’ Teachings and Actions… Rather, all I was - was one who could almost yak-yak about anything.

Approaching Him via His Gospels with a positive assumptive - opened me up …

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EndTimes said:
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Freddy:
Not with a capital T, no. But that I love my wife is true. That the Roosters won the comp last season is true. That I don’t believe in God is true. That He may exist is…debatable.

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Very easy to see where you stand.

It might be true too that you’re on this Forum b/c of where your stand…

I Know God Exists… Yet God has more to do than Exist. 🙂

Accepting the Golden Rule - moves one closer to His Realm…

Being Obedient - seeing it as the best Viable Way for all humans to be… is more…

And that latter is what I strive to perfect in my malleable free will Being

One thing I learned one day was that I’d never actually gone out of my way to really get to know Jesus’ Teachings and Actions… Rather, all I was - was one who could almost yak-yak about anything.

Approaching Him via His Gospels with a positive assumptive - opened me up …

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Good to know that we both follow one of Jesus’ teaching. The golden rule will get us both quite some way to living a moral life.
 
Freddy said:
Good to know that we both follow one of Jesus’ teaching. The golden rule will get us both quite some way to living a moral life.
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Do a good job (and me as well) and we just might be shaking hands when we’re standing B4 our King.
 
They also present their reasoning and sources so you can check their work. Are you disagreeing with them because you find their research flawed or are you ignoring them because you don’t like their perceived political leanings?
 
Snopes still remains as a self-declared maven of Truth

To the OP - Increase of Atheists around the world, increase of crime any coincidence?

Thou Shalt Not LIe, Steal, Murder? … Crimes…

Those who reject God’s Teachings are the ones who commit such Crimes
 
EndTimes said:
Snopes still remains as a self-declared maven of Truth
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No, Snopes has a well-earned reputation for truthfulness. Anyone can declare themselves a maven of Truth, but no one will care.
EndTimes said:
To the OP - Increase of Atheists around the world, increase of crime any coincidence?

Thou Shalt Not LIe, Steal, Murder? … Crimes…
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which have not been on the rise, while atheism has been on the rise .
 
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