Right, because religious bigots shoot up gay dance clubs to show the world what morality really is.That might be "hilarious", unless you are a doctor working in Emergency dept. at the weekend.
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Does Atheism Lead to Immoral Behavior?
- Thread starter Nakosis
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I've worked the emergency dept, on weekends, in a level I trauma center, no less. I don't recall treating any club related fornication emergencies.That might be "hilarious", unless you are a doctor working in Emergency dept. at the weekend.
What evidence is there for a natural reduction of gods over time?
ROFL! "Atheist doctrine"...."life invented itself!"
How is abiogenesis a delusion? You're misdefining "delusion."
Not convincing? I suspect you don't know the first thing about current hypotheses or research.
The wholeidea's just silly. Nobody believes the sky fairy stories anymore. Those things up there are gandharvas.
Real fairies rarely fly more than a meter above the ground. Everybody knows that.
And an unrealistic one.Hopefully .. but you never know what might happen later down the line.
No sex before marriage is a safer option.
The observations that:
- life is essentially chemistry,
- chemistry arises from the laws of physics, and
- physics is the result of quantum mechanics
An option that has been routinely ignored throughout human history.Hopefully .. but you never know what might happen later down the line.
No sex before marriage is a safer option.
You can make a law against breathing, if you want to, but I promise you, nobody will ever obey it.
muhammad_isa
Veteran Member
BBC News - Why do so few rape cases go to court?
Of course they don't !
It was easier for the police when the institution of marriage was the norm.
muhammad_isa
Veteran Member
All very well in theory, but clearly a problem in practice.
Violence due to sexual rivalry is common.
muhammad_isa
Veteran Member
Of course .. human beings sin..
However, not all of us commit adultery or fornication routinely.
Yes, when I lost my faith, I suddenly felt the irresistible need to turn into Hannibal the Cannibal.I'd suppose this depends on what you view as moral behavior but I thought I'd ask the question to see what people would say.
It is easy to justify one's personal morals but I'd like you to consider the world at large. Is the world becoming more moral or less moral?
And, does this have anything to do with the decline of religious belief?
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- viole
So that's where you can be found when you aren't on RF.
So you only commit adultery and fornicate on occassion. I'm sure God will let you off the hook for not doing it routinely. Thanks for the update on your personal life.
Colt
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“The mechanistic philosopher professes to reject the idea of a universal and sovereign will, the very sovereign will whose activity in the elaboration of universe laws he so deeply reverences. What unintended homage the mechanist pays the law-Creator when he conceives such laws to be self-acting and self-explanatory!” UB 1955
Colt
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The claim that primitive life forms kept falling uphill into more complex forms as an unplanned, unaided phenomenon.
“ To science God is a possibility, to psychology a desirability, to philosophy a probability, to religion a certainty, an actuality of religious experience. Reason demands that a philosophy which cannot find the God of probability should be very respectful of that religious faith which can and does find the God of certitude. Neither should science discount religious experience on grounds of credulity, not so long as it persists in the assumption that man’s intellectual and philosophic endowments emerged from increasingly lesser intelligences the further back they go, finally taking origin in primitive life which was utterly devoid of all thinking and feeling.” UB 1955
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The Urantia Book is not a credible source. I have one myself and read through many parts of it. Wow, different colored aliens from other planets? Aweson idea for a movie script, not science. If you get your science from religious books your beliefs will be wrong and irrelevant. You're on a forum with well-educated people, so you need to refer to reliable and valid sources to make your posts. If you knew science you would have to post anything because you would be well-educated yourself.
Colt
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I will rely on spiritual and philosophical sources of my own choice. Atheists certainly aren’t reliable sources for spiritual truth.
And that's due cultures of prohibitive regulation, sexual domination and competition. It's the tabu, not the sex, that's causing the problems. Change the culture and rules; eliminate the need for rivalry, and the violence will disappear.
If competition, jealousy and violent rivalry were pan-cultural, then the many negative effects of promiscuous or premarital sex you've pointed out would be universal. But they're not.
Not all cultures are like ours. Not all cultures equate nudity with sex; not all discourage or stigmatize premarital sex. Sexual jealousy and rivalries are not universal problems.
Don't judge other cultures by your own. If you want to solve a social problem, look to a society where it doesn't exist, and see how they've dealt with it. You need not re-invent the wheel. just copy.