Atheist . where does the conscience come from.?

Question

A resolute judge on the courtroom of the mind. Telling you what you dont want to here. You have a judge thats impartial and speaks to you about moral issues. why. conscience means with knowledge. Has God written his law on your heart????

Answer 1

My intellect tells me that you have been dipped in the dung pot of Christianity and that you have come out stinking to high heaven.

My conscience suffers no indecision or hesitation at all in telling you this, in fact, I feel duty bound to do so for the sake of all mankind including you.

If you are curious about what unconsciousness is you might try reading "The Quantum Self" by Dr. Karen Zohar. Her book is an excellent look into the physics of consciousness. It is theoretical for the most part but it is, nonetheless, real science and not the bunk of religious belief that you are slinging. FYI : I gather that Dr Zohar is herself a Christian.

As for God writing anything anywhere... Phooey on that bologna.

(And, Chris, sign up for remedial language arts classes... Your skills at writing are a shambles.... Shame on you.)

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POST SCRIPT to Nish : You lose the bet, Honey: Been there. Done that. Neither God nor his counterpart, good ole Satin, ever came knocking on the door.... no cards... no letters... no phone calls... no sparks in the sky... nuttin' Honey.

Answer 2

Sorry. That's an argument I heard in a church before, but it's simply stupid. A child, growing in the wild, taught by wolves would have the morality of a wolf. There would be no objective conscience to tell them that killing was wrong, as killing was a way of life.

In people who are brought up outside of Christianity, there is no conscience dictating the ten commandments.

If the conscience were truly the word of God imprinted on your heart, why would it not say "Join a Christian Church". If it were truly the word of God, there would be no discussion about which church or religion were correct as it would be blatantly obvious without equivocation.

Instead, the "conscience" is merely the voice of ourselves reporting the things we have learned to be true and correct reporting to us that what we are about to do may go against what we have learned to be correct. It's not God, it's us.

Answer 3

I am an atheist Hindu living in Kerala India. If I ever come to know that the person I married is my first cousin (separated and moved away at birth and later came back to reside at same place), my conscience will torture me for my entire life because Hindus treat first cousins as siblings. Where as my next door neighbors, who are Muslims, have this custom of marrying first cousins and they are not tormented. Similarly a Hindu Brahmin will be tortured by his own conscience if he ever came to know that he has consumed non-vegetarian food. Where as western society kill animals in large scale for food. Even the fact that - living things that have a central nervous system are aware of life, death and pain unlike vegetables - does not seem to hurt their conscience.

This means no divine/supreme being has put anything in anybody’s mind. Conscience is just a learned behavior from the surroundings. It may be possible to raise a child without any morals and values and that child will develop as an adult with no conscience

Answer 4

This is an old and failed argument. As was stated in response #1, you don't need religion for morals.

Granted- the morals without religion may come out a bit differently. For instance, the torture of heretics for 600 years by the Christian church, probably would be been considered immoral by the godless Atheists. Fortunately, we have religion to guide us here.

Today- religion guides us with fine morals, such as restricting rights of gay people, for god says they are 'sinners' uh... even though he made them that way. Or supporting wars with a battle cry of "death to the infidels". Is that the kind of moral compass that drives your conscience?

Answer 5

Atheist have the ability to determine what is good and what is not. The majority of people in this world are believers in a god of some kind and look what a mess it is in. Most of the laws written in the bible are common sense. My ideas of morality are not always the same as those who believe in god. I am much more tolerant than that.

Answer 6

Our conscience is not a law written on our hearts (the heart pumps blood, the conscience is in the brain). Conscience is based upon our learning, beginning in early childhood from our parents.

Answer 7

No it is a draw back to the time when humans first began tolive together for protection and they developed a need to respect each other and to work together for survival. This later lead to the heads man, chief, king, and eventually the present systems of government we have.
For the common good humans developed a sense of moral right and wrong. nothing religious about it at all.

Answer 8

Morality is a human sociological construct that was justified via religion. regardless of personal beliefs we need to understand that it is a fear of not fitting into society or a social group which forces us to behave in certain ways. Morality - right and wrong - is defined by the group over a period of time.

The main question we should be looking at is why are so many different social groups so similar in their moral perspectives - is murder inherently wrong or do we merely pressure ourselves into NOT murdering....

Think about it.

Answer 9

The conscience displays diversity of giudance in different individuals and is most likely a construct of both sociological conditioning and evolutionary memetic development.

Although, we can determine the moral objective we seek through reason.

Answer 10

I sincerely hope nobody has written anything on my heart - it would cause serious problems, I imagine!

Conscience comes from the mind. The natural. Not the supernatural.