Okay this is why - because where did the moral code come from if God does not exist. If there is no God then evil and suffering do not exist...
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Moral code comes from the same place as the social contract. Evil is stuff that defies that code, hurts other people, results in people being treated in a way that you wouldn't want to be treated yourself. And what the hell do you mean that suffering doesn't exist if there is no God?
That's almost right. Evil, as an objective concept, does not existe.
Just look at what is considered evil in other cultures.
Suffering does exist. It appears when people do not meet their needs.
Empathy and resptect evolved as we evolved into social animals. If you're living together as a group, you have to interact with others, and those who work together and help each other are more popular than those who fuck others over and take all the food for themselves.
"If there is no God then evil and suffering do not exist..."
Isaiah 45:7: 'I form the light, and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. '
Amos 3:6: 'Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn't done it? '
The Abrahamic God that ISIS worship. Timothy McVeigh. Eric Robert Rudolph. Hutaree. Christian Identity.
'We are all made in God's Image. And as God enjoys killing...! ' [/Dr. Hannibal Lecter]
As the Wiccans/Neo-Pagans say: 'An it harm none , do what thou wilt'. I, an Atheist, can be civilised to my fellow human beings, because I can . Also, Rule of Law, based on Democracy.
That is why religions don't have the monopoly on morals. Hosea 13:16 proves you - certainly you fundies' 'Pro-Life ' cause - wrong .
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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