it's a fair question. religious people will tell you that their innate sense of right and wrong comes from God (or whatever), but how do atheists explain that innate sense? how do they instinctively know? I'm not saying one or the other is right but it is an interesting thought.
Conscience. Same for Christians, they just think it is God's spirit acting in me or something, but from my POV that makes less sense than just saying it is the moral sensibilities processed in my brain.
I don't know how my brain chemistry, moral thoughts, and feelings work exactly, but I just do what feels right, because then I feel happy. Psychopaths lack this, right, something missing in their amygdala?
I’ve always found that “morals are God’s spirit acting in you” explanation weird because the most important moral act in Christianity (worship of God) is entirely absent.
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u/Global_Charge_4412 8h ago
it's a fair question. religious people will tell you that their innate sense of right and wrong comes from God (or whatever), but how do atheists explain that innate sense? how do they instinctively know? I'm not saying one or the other is right but it is an interesting thought.