Re: atheistic morality
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"In reality, the 'wicked' deeds of Hitler, Stalin, Mau, Bush (???), etc., are not evil in any meaningful or absolute sense."
"It's amazing what you can do to the mind of a child if you start indoctrinating him young enough."
"Are you saying that without appealing to God as an authority for right and wrong, there is no way to discern that mass murder of innocents is evil?"
WHY IS EVERY SINGLE PERSON CONFUSED ABOUT THIS SUBJECT?
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I am not confused, David.
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Mass murder of innocents is not evil in an absolute sense.
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This is a boring semantics game over the meaning of "absolute".
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The reasons humans don't is because doing it will make them FEEL BAD (now or later).
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Correct. So what am I confused about, exactly?
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For any one of a variety of reasons. Some genetic. Some taught. Where religious (and non religious) people get confused is in thinking that the above fact is of any particular consequence.
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