Would an Atheist be Concerned About Universal Fairness?

Question

An atheist does not believe in the existence of a creator or a higher power that life originated from.

If atheists believe human beings do not get judged, then how do they handle the dilemma of fairness and equality? As people will die and go away without paying for their crimes if theyre not captured or trialed on earth?

So are god believers more optimistic than atheists are? cause they believe that everything will find its equal in the judgement day?

Answer 1

What's to be concerned with? Is it a universal law that this happens (like the law of karma)? Then neither Atheists nor Theists need worry or do anything, right? It's not as if you're proposing a universal law that requires that people *do* anything.

Answer 2

Uggg... what do you mean? Haven't you noticed that Atheists are much more about fairness and equality than any religious person is? Religion teaches favoritism, biggotry, hatred, intolerance, and prejudice and promotes persecution. Atheism does none of those things. Atheism insists that everyone gets treated the same regardless of their gender, sexual preference, religion, and color of skin.

Atheists DO have something to fear. Other people. They don't have anything to worry about with an after life because they know that there is no after life.

Everyone pays for their crimes. Everyone. Even if it is only by death.

You see, to an Atheist, they know that death is the end and this is the only life they have. So death is not something to be sought and looked forward to. Its a reality to be accepted, but not something to try to find.

We don't need to be judged by a god when life is hard enough already and we'll be judged by the people around us and our conscience.

Answer 3

I don't think it's an optimistic view at all. The only conclusion I can see in this is that atheists are better at forgiving.

Punishment is not some sort of higher goal or purpose. Humans are creatures with choices, sometimes a person makes a wrong choice.

Any punishment after that wrong choice, should have one simple purpose: educate the person that made the wrong choice, and make that person a better person.

Hell doesn't do that. It's hollow punishment, with no purpose what so ever.

I believe in the combination of punishment and education. When a person leaves a prison, that person should have had a basic education on what's good and bad. Our goal should be to teach any convicted person how wrong he/she was. Punishment is empty when it has no purpose to make the entire society a better place.

So, Universal Fairness? If a person has died, what would be the purpose of a punishment? Shouldn't a dead person just simply be forgiven for his/her wrong choices, no matter how bad they were?

Answer 4

There is no dilemma, it's just life. People get away with things all the time. In fact if you believe that all fairness and equality come at the end, then what's the point of prosecuting individuals now? There wouldn't be one, because they'll pay for their crimes after death. And atheists make up fewer criminals than christians, and are generally very moralistic. :D

Answer 5

"Atheists tend to be intellectually superior"?!?!

Atheists have criteria by which they observe the world and all that is in it and determine (somehow) that there is no God, and we have a different set of criteria. But don't suppose for an instant that your choice makes you superior to anybody else. (Yeah, thumbs down... I know.)

My Answer: Most atheists will say that they do what is right simply because it's right. They think of it as an intellectual motivation to be in harmony with the people and the world around them.

My Question is: What is right? One person may think it's good to do something that another will look at as bad. So what is the measure? Society at large? Whatever most people think is right is right? As long as it doesn't hurt somebody else it's okay? Nah... morality has got to be based on something higher and more unchangeable than personal world views, politics, and opinions which can be easily manipulated.

Answer 6

Personally, I feel that we choose a basic path in life in order to learn from it. When we die, we go back to the pure spiritual energy and back to the whole. We are not the person whose life we lived in physical form. We are the spirit, and sometimes the physical form does things the spirit would not, because we have chosen to learn that way.

Once we return to the whole, all those bad things are forgotten, by us and the victims, because we all know we are here to learn. That doesn't make those actions right, but I guess you could say that forgiveness is guaranteed. What happened on Earth makes no difference once you are dead, as long as you learned from it.

Answer 7

How is it "fair" that a christian can live a life full of sin, but they merely have to confess and/or accept jesus as their savior & they are cleansed of all evil.....while an atheist can live a life of charity & peace & do no evils unto his fellow man and he is condemned to hell from the beginning simply because he does not accept the IDEA of a god?

Hitler was a christian... and believed that he was acting in favor of the creator. (God) Do you think he is in heaven right now? Do you think that it is fair that Hitler may be in heaven, but you may not get to go if your faith is dissuaded at all in your savior?

Many religions are based on fear.... and when you have no fear you do anything for the "god" you believe in without repercussions because you believe your "god" will accept you since you are doing his work.

I'm sorry, but anyone who tells me that god speaks to them & tells them what they need to do .... i think they need to be locked up.

Answer 8

Sorry, but I believe that only a lower life form requires fear to compel them to be fair and equitable. Atheists tend to be intellectually superior to god-worshippers and therefore understand the need for fairness.

Answer 9

An atheist should be more concerned with universal fairness because their is no final judgement.

Answer 10

If "god believers" really thought that everything would be taken care of on Judgement Day, they would stop trying to punish everyone they don't like in this life (gays and pro-choicers for example), as if god needed them to do it for him.