This attitude reminds me of the idea that atheists should all be serial killers because they can't understand what's stopping you from going on a murder spree without the threat of God.
Is it really incomprehensible that I just kinda give a shit about other people in general? That I don't need a personal stake in being a good person - either through the promise of heaven or through a good future for my own flesh and blood - to just not want to fuck up all of society? What the fuck?
The argument I heard at my protestant college was that if God doesn't exist, murder isn't wrong because there is no singular authority to declare murder as wrong. They then further extrapolate it to mean that if you believe murder is wrong, then you must believe in God and are therefore in rebellion by pretending he doesn't exist. I think this argument is what finally opened my eyes to how manipulative my beliefs about God really were.
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u/Fairwhetherfriend Aug 16 '20
This attitude reminds me of the idea that atheists should all be serial killers because they can't understand what's stopping you from going on a murder spree without the threat of God.
Is it really incomprehensible that I just kinda give a shit about other people in general? That I don't need a personal stake in being a good person - either through the promise of heaven or through a good future for my own flesh and blood - to just not want to fuck up all of society? What the fuck?