faithful_servant
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Here on a predominantly American Forum I find a lot of religious types who seem to be absolutely in capable of taking on board a simple idea or question.
We have people continuously making the same argument that those of us who don't believe in the sky daddy are somehow incapable of having any morals. The fact that the first reply clearly disproves such an idea and that we are clearly highly capable of discussing our morals and ethics simply does not make a difference to the totally fixed mind of the God botherer.
Such a level of utterly willful ignorance has to be maintained somehow.
How?
I really don't know.
The issue for me isn't whether atheists have morals, but rather if those morals always hold true. As an atheist, your morals entirely subjective. That means that what is moral today can be immoral tomorrow and vice versa. Whereas with someone who's code of morals come from an external source doesn't have that problem. What is moral for me today will always be moral and what is immoral will always be immoral. I may not always follow that moral code, but it still consistently defines my morality.