-Removed-No actually, merely trying to understand what you mean/understand by morality.
What are your morals based on and how do you know they are good?
To be honest, they are largely intuitive. I could come up with justifications for them, and may need to use logic etc to determine the morality of particular situations, but the justifications are just that, an attempt to justify or formalize an intuition.
My morals are good by definition ie 'good' is what morality says is good.
I must also say that here I am talking about a specific branch of morality: the concept that causing unnecessary harm to others is wrong. I am not so much talking about traditional morality such as whether or not a woman should cover her knees (although they are related).
I also do not act to achieve the maximum moral good. ie I may act immorally for selfish reasons or for the sake of a loved one - and feel perfectly justified in doing so.
Originally posted by Great King RatI guess it's because theist try to infer other-worldly ideas into their posts, which by their nature are unverifiable (by current scientific methods :o ).
It amuses me that all the really crazy stuff on this forum comes from theists and hardly anything - if anything at all - crazy comes from the atheists.
If I were a moderate theist I'd really wonder why that is.
It would raise some serious questions. Why are theists, having a far closer relationship with god than atheists, on average batcrazy whe ...[text shortened]... crazy? What does that say about me?
Luckily, I'm a moderate atheist. No such worries for me.
Atheists stick to what is known and the rationality of this world.
