Not necessarily. An atheist can spend quite a bit of time studying religion as a purely cultural phenomenon, and plenty of nontheistic academics do precisely this.
Indeed!Sometimes I’ve typed a question into Google and found a reference to a statement that I or some one else on this forum has made a few hours or even several years previously! It’s incredibly swift and encyclopaedic…God brought me here, who are you to question his wisdom?!
Ok, seriously, I’m here because many religious people or people in general look at those who don’t share same beliefs with them (including non believers) as ‘aliens’. I want to change that, sure I’m not perfect myself, and this site is shown on Google when you do researchs and type a question so many atheists would register to reply to a thread.
I hadn’t noticed anyone treating me like an alien for ANY reason. Nor do I treat someone else like an alien just because they disagree with me on something. People disagree on stuff all the time and get along just fine.God brought me here, who are you to question his wisdom?!
Ok, seriously, I’m here because many religious people or people in general look at those who don’t share same beliefs with them (including non believers) as ‘aliens’.<—REALLY?! I want to change that, sure I’m not perfect myself, and this site is shown on Google when you do researchs and type a question so many atheists would register to reply to a thread.
Ok, but I’m not you and you are not me, so what I’ve experienced and learned in my life may be in somehow different from what you have experienced or other people experiences.
Imagine yourself learning new informations from your old posts while searching on Google 0.o
I have also considered the “alien” theory. Perhaps not so much as coming from another world but speculating that there could be significant genetic differences between believers and non-believers. I honestly can’t understand how intelligent well educated people can sincerely believe some of this stuff. Looking forward to seeing the results of studying the genetic differences.God brought me here, who are you to question his wisdom?!
Ok, seriously, I’m here because many religious people or people in general look at those who don’t share same beliefs with them (including non believers) as ‘aliens’. I want to change that, sure I’m not perfect myself, and this site is shown on Google when you do researchs and type a question so many atheists would register to reply to a thread.
With all due respect, an organization as big and powerful as the CC deserves some competitors. You know, to keep it from growing too big for its britches.
Objectively speaking, what does it mean to deserve something?
What do you think it means?
I know what it means; and by seeing that it is indeed “true” that some actions “merit” or “justify” a sense of deserving, It is one of the reasons I believe in God. Objective Moral law and Value is evident to my experiences.
Heck yeah, we enjoy arguing.
The same way Catholics, or any other people do.
The moral law is the moral law whatever time and place you find it in. That said, Christianity does not automatically equal law. In fact, I see it as quite the opposite. The Abrahamic religions all, to my mind, privilege belief over action to an undue extent, and the Catholic Church is guilty of a lot of crimes for which she must atone for if she wishes to persist as a legitimate institution.
Where does moral law come from?The moral law is the moral law whatever time and place you find it in. That said, Christianity does not automatically equal law. In fact, I see it as quite the opposite. The Abrahamic religions all, to my mind, privilege belief over action to an undue extent, and the Catholic Church is guilty of a lot of crimes for which she must atone for if she wishes to persist as a legitimate institution.
So, I will critique “Her.” Not only that, but I am quite justified in critiquing her. That is because she has been a bad girl, and still is, in a lot of ways.
You don’t know anymore than I do.
What does it mean to say that karma exists?
Well, for one it means that actions have effects. If I go and have sex with this girl and she gets pregnant, well, tough. If I go down to the soup shop tomorrow and gorge myself on lobster bisque I’m going to have a helluvah lot of indigestion in the coming hours. Now, extend this idea of “cause” and “effect” over a whole lifetime. Once that’s done, it isn’t hard to extend it over multiple lifetimes.
Cause and effect doesn’t really tell me much about moral truth. It just says that actions have consequences.
Well, it all depends on your system of morality. Some may point to a consequentialist ethic, others might suppose something like deontology, where what happens is irrelevant.