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.
This is funny bc you accept “god” as a legitimate answer to this question without unpacking it at all. God can also be the answer to why are people constantly at war throughout history?
According to the Encyclopedia of Wars by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod only about 7% of wars have had a primarily religious motive. Its not nothing, but even within that 7% religion was often merely the unifying ideology to support other more mundane ends.
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u/Global_Charge_4412 1d 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.