<<OK, I see you've abandoned your argument that atheists are as ethical as believers.
Now your argument is that atheism has nothing to do with ethics or morality. I agree.>>
Surely you know I have never "abandoned" any such thing. How odd of you to say that.
Over two years ago, on feelies, I posted this:
<<<It is discouraging to me that after all these exchanges, you
continue not to understand that "atheism" is not a moral code any more than theism is a moral code.
The difference is that I say good resides in man, and you say it resides in some other entity.
And there is not one moral code for theists any more than there is for atheists.
There is no way to move forward if this simple concept cannot be grasped...
I like good, kind, decent theists, and don't like mean, vicious, base atheists. I have know both, and I've known the reverse case....
There is not the least evidence that atheists are less ethical than believers. You twisted my words trickily, and presumably intentionally, into a meaning they don't contain when you claim that I have "abandoned an argument that atheists are as ethical as believers." You have implied there that I now concede they aren't.
This is what I actually wrote:
Again, atheism is not a moral code. It is a statement of opinion about a single issue. Atheists are as various in their moral codes as are theists. >>>
Atheism is not a moral code. Atheists are human beings who have moral codes.
I will next post some data about atheists and theists who were part of a study and their particular moral codes. I posted it earlier, but perhaps you didn't see it. If you had, you would know that my suspicion is that in America, at least, atheists....
Well, I'll post it now. |
