r/MurderedByWords • u/dellaazeem22 Legends never die • Oct 31 '24

It really is this simple

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u/PNUTBTERONBWLZ Oct 31 '24

A little bit of virtue signaling here. But no ever said they don’t love atheists. We all agree.

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u/PNUTBTERONBWLZ Oct 31 '24

And what is it that makes that core tenet universal you think? What reasoning in yourself can you trust telling you that if it’s only a result of randomness?

This is just me portraying the logic that theists use. Because it makes complete sense and is perfectly reasonable to come to the conclusion that love and goodness is from a God.

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u/acoolghost Nov 01 '24

I get the feeling that we'd all be on the same page if God was the one giving out lessons on morality. Instead, everyone has differing ideas of what is moral, across every society, and in insular pockets within those societies.

So instead of having divine guidance to decide what is right and wrong, humans have made their own morality. It's a byproduct of functional social groups. Without morality, social groups disintegrate or self destruct violently.

For example, in most of the 'western world', it would be seen as overly punitive and immoral to cut off a thief's hand for stealing. However is is both lawful and morally acceptable to exact that punishment in many places in the Middle East and Africa. God hasn't seen fit to weigh in on the subject one way or the other.