You Don’t Need Religion to Distinguish Right from Wrong | Challenge Response
Brett Kunkle answers this week’s challenge: “You don’t need religion to know right and wrong.”
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My apologies. I was unable to spare the time to watch this video as I was too busy buying some new slaves which was entirely justified by the "laws written on my heart". Please feel free to respond only if you are not wearing mixed fabrics which of course would contravene the "laws written on your heart".
The simple fact that we're intelligent should be able to answer why we have morality.
So many outright lies and just plain assumptions fill this video… it would be almost funny if he were the the only one spewing these cliches
I would say that if your god is real and he has given us these morals then I am way more moral than your god.
Atheistic belief is like vegetarian meat products.
Why am I even bothering. Other people will point all of your mistakes out to you. You just won't listen.
I just wanted to let you know I found your video hilarious. Keep it up – embarrassing the religious position. You make it evident, why people need to get rid of dogma. It prevents them from using logic and reason.
Believe in the mailman? Fantastic. By your logic mail must come from god. Love it. We don't see the mailman but we know mail comes. It must come from somewhere….
…god.
i just don't understand how theists always just pretend that everyone, including the atheists they are responding to or trying to convince, assumes that there is such a thing as objective morality like they do. it seems disingenuous to me, but i suppose some of them have not considered the alternative.
i also love it when theists use the "animals commit immoral acts argument", yet completely fail to realize that HUMANS do these things too, and they are the ones claiming that we have objective morals. to use this guys arguments, humans commit rape, humans kill babies, HIS OWN GOD COMMITTED INFANTICIDE, including wiping out entire civilizations to get rid of them and their children, because they had "bad genes"(meaning they were evil so he had to kill the babies who would grow up to be evil, or even avenge their murdered parents) just like the lions he mentioned.
All this video boils down to is "I know you are but what am I?"
There seems to be a lot of variants of "God's moral law" written in people's hearts. Funnily enough, they seem to respect cultural boundaries.
Who is this fucking douche and why do these christians have to lie when talking about Hitler.
Pardon but what exactly is Atheistic belief? Atheism is by definition ONLY not believing in a God. Saying "Atheistic belief" is incoherent as it's not a belief, it's just the lack of belief in one particular type of claim (ie the claim that there is a God). Saying anything is responsible for this is like saying someone did something because their lack of belief in unicorns motivated them… Atheism can't by definition be the motive for an action because it doesn't support anyone doing anything, it has no dogma, no commands, no practices, no rites, no rituals, no rules… it is simply what you call someone when they do not actively believe in a God and it's nothing more than that. This seems to be the problem of many theists, you don't often seem to grasp what the word Atheism means.
Religion on the other hand DOES have rules, DOES have tenants and dogma and commands. The bible for example is FULL of what I and most others in modern society would call horrendous commands, most of which are now ignored or have been abandoned by the modern societies of the world often being excused as old or no longer necessary by the believers of said holy book (and mind you it's not the only religious text with terrible commands).
Now I wouldn't necessarily state the root of most horrendous acts in history are religious because I haven't had the time nor patience to quantify every such act and search it's cause, but there is no doubt that many certainly are and to ignore history is simply dishonest.
Wait, so Hitler's motive was to spread lack of belief in a god?
These fundamentalist Christians keep repeating the same arguments. It's fine if you think it's true–but can any of them be original?
How about a new argument?
And since we know that there is a difference between animal and human actions, I think that's proof enough that human morality couldn't have evolved. Because evolution claims that humans and the lions mentioned in this video all share a common ancestor.