2006-12-02 13:44:33 · 21 answers · asked by kyle w 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly, they do. But what is the point of morals?
2006-12-02 13:48:13 · update #1
let me clarify. My best friend is an atheist. He has so many morals. But he is unable to find anyone at school who is atheist, and with morals.
2006-12-02 13:53:37 · update #2
Of course we do, the point is to be able to live along side our fellow human beings in a positive way.
2006-12-02 13:46:26 · answer #1 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am, and I do. The purpose of my morals is to enable me to have a rich and fulfilling life while being giving and doing the right thing by others. I'm not kind and morally upstanding in order to earn my way into a magical world when I die, or because I was told to by a book, or a man in a cloak. I am kind and morally upstanding because it is right.
2006-12-02 21:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is it that as a committed evangelical christian, I continually feel the urge to defend atheists in this section?
I'm referring to questions like this one. I'm sorry, but it really makes no sense. Apart from being offensive, and being enough to drive an atheist to confirm his rejection of Christianity, it just isn't logical. There are lots of logical reasons for morality - even wselfish reasons for them. Society couldn't function without morality.
2006-12-02 21:49:05 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have quite strict morals for myself. The point is, I am a human being and must therefore behave morally. I don't need a reward to be "good," being good is important enough on its own.
Do you truly mean to say that, if there were no morals set in your religion, you'd run around maiming people, stealing their things, kicking puppy dogs? I certainly hope not.
2006-12-02 21:48:19 · answer #4 · answered by N 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Humanism, social cohesion, being a conscious being and knowing there are advantages in being good to one another.
There also is a genetic advantage to having morals that being you get on with the maximum amount of people and there for have a greater chance of meeting some one to mate with.
2006-12-02 21:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Because it is human nature to behave in a way which perpetuates the species. And most know that you don't use an apostrophe in a plural, too.
That's because, on average, atheists have more education than believers.
2006-12-02 21:55:18 · answer #6 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do. Some people don't a book and a reward at the end to be moral.
2006-12-02 21:46:56 · answer #7 · answered by The Wired 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
That would imply that your "morality" is only for reward ... which isn't morality at all.
To avoid violation ... the answer to your silly question is, YES they do, the point, it's RIGHT.
2006-12-02 21:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend that is an Atheist. She is one of the most kind people I know. You don't have to be a bad person to be Atheist.
2006-12-02 21:46:27 · answer #9 · answered by Piper 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, number one, yes, as much as the next person. As to why, because it is right. Because it is just. Because whether or not some deity is going to allow me into paradise when I die, to act immorally is simply wrong. I don't think you can really explain how you know right from wrong and why you choose what you do, be it right or wrong. You just sort of know.
2006-12-02 21:52:52 · answer #10 · answered by athenaty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋