Can one be moral and not believe in God? Have you ever judged or been judged unfairly? How about thinking someone’s a bad person because they don’t believe in God? In the world today we are beginning to see an ethical system being built based on tolerance and enlightenment; apart from God. A person undoubtedly can ne moral without believing in God.
Sam Harris uses this idea in one of his quotes saying that “Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes or he doesn’t care to or he doesn’t exist. God is either: impotent, evil or imaginary. Take your pick and choose wisely.” This can speak to many of those who don’t believe in God as this shows how even with this earth God didn’t create it perfectly which leads to natural disasters and if he did create this earth then he must be evil to have created it imperfectly and if a perfect being wants to create something imperfect when he can create it perfectly how is this justifiable? Some people also say that if we are a
Grothe and Dacey (being atheists themselves) understand that atheists are misunderstood and misrepresented by society, but they are not being oppressed. Next, the authors list off some minority groups throughout history who actually faced discrimination. These groups, such as
The only flaw is the dark, not-so-happy secret that they all share. In order to maintain this happiness, there must be one who suffers, specifically a child. The child is treated worse than an animal, and is often treated as if it were an act in a freak show. The people of the town know of the child and most have seen it, but the fear that their happiness will be taken from them prevents them from acknowledging that anything is wrong. There are a few individuals, however, who have acknowledged the inhumanity going on, and they are the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Evil is something caused by living things with free will which is intended to cause harm or misery to something or someone else, though different people have different views on what evil is. One argument is the atheist argument, and that God can’t exist if he allows evil. John Mill, an atheist philosopher, says that God can’t be real because if he was then he would not allow this much suffering to happen, especially to innocent people. Another non-religious view is that sometimes bad things happen, not because a ‘God’ has made it, but just because not everything that happens in the world is good. For example, there was a mini-bus crash where 12 children and a teacher were killed, and an atheist would say the mini-bus and lorry were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that it certainly did not have anything to do with God.
Alexa Neumann Everyone is Selfish Humans are mysterious creatures. We do things that sometimes even ourselves cannot understand. It baffles me that as a species, we seem to be okay with not knowing why we do the things we do. Surely some people do try to break down human nature, such as psychologists and behaviorists and such. But our society as a whole seems to not care about how we as humans act towered each other.
• The Theory of Archetypes - Geza Roheim argues that the theory of archetypes is unnecessary. As humans share the same experiences, such as dependence on parents, it is not surprising that they construct similar myths. Also, some religious myths come from the experiences of a particular community and so it seems unlikely that they are born out of an idea which is present in all humans. Therefore, it is argued that Jung is not justified in stating that there is an ‘instinct for God’ just because people believe in God. Also, many people do not believe in God.
The trouble with this he explains is that they want to be a light not in the Lord but in themselves, with their notion that the soul is by nature divine, still allows darkness to enter in because by their awful arrogance they have moved further away from you, the true light that enlighten everyone who comes into the world. For Augustine, he felt this was happening without his consent. What it had indicated was not the
This conception of morality provides the wrong reasons for moral principles. Going back to the child abuse example if God didn’t exist, child abuse wouldn’t be wrong. This is because if God wouldn’t be around to make abuse wrong. However, child abuse would still be malicious so it would still be wrong (Rachel’s and 50-53). Which makes this theory impossible to be right, second even god faring people don’t always agree with everything god states.
Many people may say insidious is such a strong word for two harmless words. But these words can be harmful to many people. I like to call them dangerous words because they put people in their own category. They show the separation between people even now in the days that we believe that we are all equal. “We and them” are words that people use in everyday life and they have no clue that they are so insidious.