Atheists have morals!
That's right. A nice new scientific study confirms what looking around and noticing that jails aren't full of evil atheists could have already told you.
It's nice confirmation to wag in the faces of the idiots that think morals can only come from God, yet the authors can't leave the article without saying something completely asinine.
"It seems that in many cultures religious concepts and beliefs have become the standard way of conceptualising [sic] moral intuitions,” he said.Using religion as a medium for transmitting morals is so fundamental to our existence that criticizing religion is a fundamental threat to morals in general?!
"Although, as we discuss in our paper, this link is not a necessary one, many people have become so accustomed to using it, that criticism targeted at religion is experienced as a fundamental threat to our moral existence."
Yes, and I'm sure that slavery was such an important part of the economic prosperity of the United States that criticizing that would be a fundamental threat to economical stability.
Obviously the the researchers didn't get the message of their own research: Many people (atheists and agnostics) are perfectly fine without God, even without having to dress up morality in a religious medium.
Lame attempt at accomodationism is lame.
Exactly!!! I was just saying this to my daughter this morning. Someone tried to use the argument that atheism is a wrong path to take because Hitler and Stalin were atheists. ugghhhh I get so annoyed with stupid comments like that. So that means all atheists are immoral? Wow! lol
ReplyDeleteGreat post!
I don't see the authors saying that criticising religion is a fundamental threat to our morality; I see the authors saying that the link between morals and religion has been so widely taken for granted that many people percieve crticizing religion as being a fundamental threat to our morality.
ReplyDeleteThat's not accomodationism, that's stating the obvious.
I don't see the authors saying that criticising religion is a fundamental threat to our morality; I see the authors saying that the link between morals and religion has been so widely taken for granted that many people percieve crticizing religion as being a fundamental threat to our morality.
ReplyDeleteThat's not accomodationism, that's stating the obvious.