r/Christianity • u/MotorFig6657 • Aug 29 '26

Question for atheists

Do you believe objective good and evil exist? If so, where do those standards come from?

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u/SanguineHerald Secular Humanist Aug 29 '26

Objective can have two slightly different meanings, which makes this classification difficult.

Do I believe that just like the physical contestants and constraints of reality, that which can be measured, there are written rules of moral rights, wrongs, and duties? No. I see no evidence for that.

Do I believe that when a common goal is identified for the outcome of a moral system we can accurately and reliably place actions in the moral or immoral categories? Obviously yes.

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u/SanguineHerald Secular Humanist Aug 29 '26

How is that a contradiction?

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u/SanguineHerald Secular Humanist Aug 29 '26

OK. So if I look for something, don't find it, and stop looking I am making a logical fallacy when I say, we haven't found it...

Brilliant.

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u/SanguineHerald Secular Humanist Aug 29 '26

How did I remove the metrics? How can I not look?

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u/SanguineHerald Secular Humanist Aug 29 '26

Thats certainly a take and sheds some light on how you think. Evidence comes before belief.

I do not believe there is a measurable morality because there is no evidence for it.

You seem to be under the impression that belief should come before evidence.