Who do you think are the most morally bankrupt, atheists, agnostics, or pagans?

Question

Why do you think that?

I would have to say atheists are because they have no moral compass at all.

Agnostics are just weak willed, they simply can't make up their mind.

Pagans are merely stupid or dilusional because they live in a fantasy world of magic and dragons, things they should have gotten over by the third grade.

Answer 1

I believe its all of the above! They are incapable of being moral.

God bless!
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Answer 2

What lead you to think Atheists have no moral compass?

Can't make up their mind? True, but most people go through some questioning period in their life. It's natural to do that.

Pagans live in a fantasy world. Hmmm magic and dragons. Isn't Noah's separation of water a Jesus's walking on water Divine magic?

Why do you not include the other believers in that question. Do you think that faith provides the only moral compass? How about Atheists who help others because they believe its the right thing to do? That path of reason is not so different from many believers.

Lets revisit morality again. Haven't religious groups been responsible for most wars in history. At least both world wars, and a third doesn't seem unlikely. Perhaps I have no moral compass and war is moral.

I'm most amused by your comment about Pagans living in a fantasy world. lol that was cute.

Answer 3

Causality is everyone moral compass weather you admit it or not. Things are wrong or right because of the effects of their consequences, not because some ancient book tells you.

While on the subject of moral bankruptcy let's take a look at Christianity. Christianity says that if you repent and accept Jesus your sins are forgiven. This means that anything you've done in the past (including murder, rape, larceny...) are erased from that point on if you are sincere. So what's to stop anyone from committing a crime or doing things that are obviously wrong to everyone and then repenting? If they are wrong and they are done someone has been hurt. If there is a system of justice in place (god) they should be held as accountable as those who do the same and do not repent. Then there is the question of how just this god really is. Is infinite punishment for finite crimes really justice?

Answer 4

Atheists have no moral compass? Are you saying that if "Thou shalt not kill" wasn't written out in the Bible, that you wouldn't know killing is wrong? If it weren't for some book thousands of years ago, you wouldn't know how to be a good person, or even have a REASON to be a good person? Maybe you can still be a moral person without having to have it spelled out for you in some ancient book... ya know, maybe some human beings just know that certain things are right and certain things are wrong. But oh wait, that just sounds too crazy.

Agnostics pretty much just claim that they are unable to make any definite conclusions about the existence (or lack) of a god. Why is that bad? It's a better mindset than the people who insist they have ALL the right answers.

And I don't know anything about what Pagans believe... but if you're a Christian who takes the Bible literally, you believe in a lot of crap that's just as ridiculous (virgin births, some guy putting every animal on earth on an ark, etc.) so don't even go there.

Answer 5

Actually, the answer to that would be 'Christians'... which you seem to have accidently omitted. Christians make up about 75% of the US population and 75% of the US prison population. No big surprise there.

Atheists, on the other hand, make up about 10% of the US population... but they make up only 0.2% of the US prison population. Now, isn't THAT a surprise? That means that atheists are FIFTY (50) times LESS LIKELY to be incarcerated than Christians. Pretty strange, huh, for a group that has no god-given guiding moral principals?

I can think of only two possibilities that might reasonably be said to account for this discrepancy:

1. Atheists are of a higher ethical and moral caliber than Christians, and thus are less prone to do the same kinds of nasty things that land so many Christians in the slammer;

OR,

2. Atheists are, overall, a lot smarter than Christians and thus, they are less likely to get caught in the course of their transgressions.

It's GOT to be one or the other... take your pick.

Answer 6

1. Lack of revealed religion is not a lack of ethics. One of the most influential philosophers on the US Founding Fathers, for instance, was John Locke, who devised one of several moral systems.

2. Agnostics have made up their mind. Their decision is that no proof exists. Claiming nonexistence of an unprovable object is impossible. Many atheists are actually agnostics who take agnosticism one step further in saying that in the absence of proof, nonexistence is the only rational answer.

Answer 7

Wow-- this seems like an attack and I am saying that as a Christian. And to answer the question, I have seen lots of "Christian" people that claim it but do not live it that are more morally bankrupt than athiests I no. No God does not equal NO morals. But, this kind of attack is what turns people away from God. Accountability.

Answer 8

i imagine that there'll be a time to ignore them and they are going to fade into heritage, yet now should be no longer that aspect. the project is they could experience that their attitude is fading from acceptance. on condition that they experience that that's the truth to them, the idea of fixing situations is quite scary. To reassure one yet another that that's the way, they have started to intervene contained in the global of politics and demand on regulations that help their beliefs. it truly is why they insist that it truly is a Christian u . s . even although the founding fathers were Deists (believing in a best being) they did not trust the basics of the very non secular of their time. This has been coming for a lengthy time period. From even as Galileo refused to trust that the sunlight went around the earth, to even as, contained in the Nineteen Eighties the Catholic church finally admitted that they managed the shade of smoke coming from the Vatican chimney by including elements to the fireplace even as they burned the ballots even as they elected a clean Pope. in the previous that it changed into meant to be a divine miracle, the smoke grew to change into white through purity of the ballots. Jesus himself changed into attempting to reform Judaism and get them to relax. He did not intend to initiate a separate faith. He fought the non secular dogma of his time. for sure the on the spot he changed into gone, those he left in the back of began coming up a clean dogma out of habit. Rome took over the church for a mode of causes, none of them even remotely non secular. Even Constantine's fringe of the tale changed into better about conquest than it changed into about God. because the prevalent function of prepared faith is administration of the populous, a replace in theory starts with loosening the carry that non secular leaders have over their human beings and the merely way which will ensue is that if human beings see the subjects contained in the recommendations that they have got been taught. the same is authentic for Islam besides.

Answer 9

Actually, agnosticism is the most logical choice. You are obviously one of those people who blinds themselves with faith, so I'll just leave you with this:

“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease”
- Lao Tzu -

"The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed"
- Buddha -

“The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this”
- Confucius -

“You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?”
- Confucius -

Answer 10

How about christians? There are lots of them who do bad things. And since they're knowingly and willfully breaking god's law, that makes them even worse.

And I'm voting for you as being the most intellectually bankrupt. Hmm "fantasy world of magic..." sounds eerily familiar....hmmmm

Toodles!

Answer 11

each and every person is because of their arrogant behavior. everyone thinks they are better than someone else and none are. no matter what labels anyone places on another group one had better take care of the log in ones own eye before worrying about the splinter in their neighbor's eye. therefore I am the most morally bankrupt person in this plane of existence.