assume pure atheism with no believers to provide a moral base. What, then, would morality be based on?
Er, isn't Buddhism literally atheistic? Offering moral precepts and a moral purpose, without gods?
Or perhaps we simply haven't been sufficiently advanced and civilised, before now, to construct a moral and ethical framework without calling upon the enforcement of the boogiemen...
Question for you.
Do you believe that - maybe only in Western civilisation, if you choose - we are more morally aware, more ethical, more conscious of our place and role in the world than peoples in previous centuries?
If you do not, how and why are we less advanced?
But if you do believe that we have improved on our predecessors, why would we feel compelled to follow their beliefs?
<edit> provocative, but not rhetorical... |
