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Originally posted by WhoaitsZ
... you must believe in a god to distinquish (spelling rules) good from evil? eh?
did i miss a day of school?
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Certainly not. I was not implying that the God-less don't or can't know right from wrong...that's simply the
prevailing Christian attitude towards atheists. The religious community believes that this knowledge comes from having a relationship with God. Christians have a standard guage of morality that is written out in the Bible and interpreted (very liberally, and very selfishly) by ministers every Sunday morning.
The atheist rejects such a notion of "moral laws". An atheist understands that morality is based on choice, not rules carved in stone. Therfore, the atheist chooses his/her own moral standards and lives by them on his/her own terms.
This bugs the Christians because they have to accept
first that there are moral standards that exist independant of their church's moral strictures. I am not meaning to say that all Christains believe the same thing, but what they
do believe is based on that one thing, the Bible - the key to "salvation".
MENTAT