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Thread #131699   Message #3005327
Posted By: Stringsinger
12-Oct-10 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
One of the points about this conversation is that no one is going to convince anyone else
that their position is the "right one". I agree that there are no easy answers to moral and personal problems and atheists are no different from believers on this. The inference that atheists are of a single mind (which may or may not have been stated) is simply not true.
Atheists can disagree sometimes vociferously on morals, or social issues. One of the advantages of being a free thinker is that you can sort through the dogma and come to your own conclusions.

Abortion has been made to be a moral issue due to conservative religious ideology. It is at the base of the "civil war" on morality. Actually, it needs to be restated that women do not prefer abortions. This is a myth generated by fundamentalist preachers as if women are trying to get away with something.

Morality should be tempered with a concern for ethics. A lot of what religion has to offer in my opinion is unethical. (Punishing gods, mass destruction, meaningless platitudes etc.)

The study of ethics is probably the most relevant part of philosophy. It informs how we behave in a society.

Morality (like beauty) in the "eye of the beholder" is subject to interpretation. I have no doubt that Hitler thought of himself as a moral person.

A few choice words by Frank Herbert (1920-1986) US writer

"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."