What is the original source that atheist get their values from?

Question

If you were tought by someone else, who taught them? And who taught them? And on and on. What is the original source?

Answer 1

The original source of all true values is God. Atheists simply do not acknowledge the source of all that is good. Their refusal to acknowledge God does not diminish who God is or what God has provided. It just diminishes the atheists themselves.

Answer 2

"One should be moral for the sake of expediency." In other words, if you are immoral, then you will probably suffer for it later and end up regretting having been immoral. This answer could be given just as well by a nontheist as by a theist.

Let us apply this result to a specific instance. Take the case of rape as an example of an immoral act. The question could be posed: why should people not rape? The Bible is unsatisfactory on this point. It says that any betrothed virgin who is raped within a town or city is equally culpable for not screaming for help and is to be executed, along with the rapist (Deut. 22:23-24). If the rape occurs out in the country, then she may be excused, but if she is a virgin not already betrothed, she must marry her attacker (Deut. 22:25-29). There is no biblical injunction whatever against the rape of a non-virgin who is neither married nor betrothed. Rape is viewed in the Bible as a kind of property crime against the man who owns the woman, which is either her husband (or future husband for one who is betrothed) or father. Thus, the Bible provides no general answer to the question "Why should people not rape?" and is very unsatisfactory in conveying the immorality of the act.




So Where did you get your morals from?

Answer 3

What are morals? would you say that Cannibalism is immoral. I will assume you said yes, and I would generally agree. But the Catholic Church considers Cannibalism to be moral enough to enshrine it as a symbolic ritual in their communion service. Would you consider going to another country and telling people they could not have life saving medicine if they practised birth control. That is what the Christian right was doing in the African Aids Crises and has pressured your humanitarian Government to do as well. Do you think that protesting at the funeral for those poor murdered Amish school girls was moral? A Christian group did and only called it off when they got offered free air time on National T.V. instead.
I don't know were we got our morals from but morals do not seem to be s strong point of the Christian faith so they did not likely come from there.

hohobankhuman has no idea who or what a Doubting Thomas was, he should make the effort to look it up for himself. And I am not bitter, but there is no God(s)

Answer 4

The original source: it is the unbelief that arises out of sin and doubt.

A "doubting Thomas" is born every day: whether he is a baby, born into a home of sin and disbelief and doubt, or whether he is an adult who is the product of his own actions, over the course of time.

Like smiling and frowning, it actually requires more of the face's muscles to frown constantly, than it does to smile, on the same basis.
But, like doubt, a frown becomes "easy" the longer one does it.

P.S: I also believe that most people have had at least some adversity and suffering, in their lives. The "cynic" becomes embittered and finally says, "There is no God."

Maybe a better question would be, "Why do some people become BETTER while others become BITTER, over the vicissitudes of life?"

Answer 5

The damaging effects of brainwashing never cease to amaze me. How very sad that your Christian glasses prevent you from seeing anything but what you believe as the truth....

Are you aware that the bible has many OT laws that come from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, and that Babylonian religion came BEFORE the bible?

Are you aware that Egyptians had moral laws as well, including laws against eavesdropping?

Who gave those laws to the earlier people? The devil? The same laws that in the bible are called "holy and just"?

People came up with the laws. How the heck hard is it to see that out of wanting to PROTECT themselves laws against murder and violence were made? How hard is it to see that MAN was full capable of seeing the damaging effects of not living at harmony with one's neighbor?

Ask questions and free your mind.

Answer 6

Why is it so difficult for you to understand that atheists are not immoral people? I mean, do you picture us as monsters, or what? Do you think you learnt in church to feel heartbroken when you learn that a child has starved to death? Or to be moved by the terrible figures of casualties in wars? Or do you think we would privilege our sexual drive and RAPE anyone we want to if we thought we wouldn't be caught? Well, no. We aren't like that. Not all of us, of course. There are monsters in all faiths, and in atheism, too. But all in all, we are people like Christians, only that we don't believe in God. That's all.

Maybe the original source could be human intelligence, and sensitivity. Just as for you believers.

Answer 7

Values evolved in human mind when there is a need for its evolution. It is the same explanation as to why dogs or other forms of animals care for their young.

There was no supernatural being that introduced it.

Answer 8

I made up my own mind on what is right or wrong. Having had been raised up Catholic I now know better. I respect other people, their property, and show special consideration for my friends and family. Good and Evil are only concepts, and subjective ones at that.

Answer 9

I am an Atheist, and as I grew older, I started to not believe in God (I started off Christian). But I generally believe in forgiving people and letting them have their beliefs, whether I disagree with them or not. I guess I get my values from watching and learning.

Answer 10

Ignorance

Answer 11

Mom. The source of all wisdom.