"First do no harm" is not derived from your Atheism"
Wiggle, wiggle! You tried to pretend (and repeated it multiple times!) that atheistic virtues were grounded in (and stolen from) the Christian record. Now your embarrassment and your wiggling shows your humiliation! All the moral qualities of humans--atheist or otherwise (and their vices)--are evidenced in the thousands of gods which have been invented PRIOR to any Christian dogma or Christian fable! Now nobody suggests that (for instance) the Greek gods were real entities--that they were truly supernatural and spiritual beings. Of course they were not! So no god was involved in their moral tales. Indeed, the gods were human inventions, and they embodied human moral (and immoral) character traits. Frequently they philander, rape, and lie. Often, they (like Yahweh with Job and his family) callously use innocent mortals as pawns.
On the other hand, they also displayed all the virtuous character traits that Christianity has ever stolen from humanity--and a great many more! Take the story of Baucis and Philemon, an impoverished old couple who show kindness to the disguised Jupiter and Mercury. Of everyone in the city, only Baucis and Philemon are generous with their humble hospitality. Jupiter and Mercury reward them and destroy all the other inhabitants of the area.
According to you, all the gods before Judaism and Christianity were phoney baloneys--projections of human need, fear, and hope. But how could any culture dress their imaginary beings in virtues, if we had no virtues--no moral compass--prior to "stealing" from the Christian weltanschauung??
The ignorance, meanness, and arrogance of your accusations is undoubtedly lost on you. You insult an entire humanity in all its diversity of experience, culture, manners, and civility. You denigrate all non-Christians--with a particular hatred reserved for free thinkers who dispense with all gods out of a genuine conviction.
Clearly you believe yourself to be better than other people. But of course that is the essential basis of your superstition, isn't it? That you can mumble some magic words such as ("Christ, I invite you into my heart--blah, blah, blah...") which will bring an invisible person into your constant orbit and will surround your life with special privilege and protect you from the same magical person in an imaginary afterlife where that invisible being would (otherwise) burn you eternally in the most sub-human and immoral scenario of torture ever invented by the primitive mind? Well...aren't you special! Aren't you lucky! ;-) ;-) |
