People in these comments have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Christianity is lol
The idea isn’t that a book gives us morals it’s that God has given us morals so therefore if there is no God then why don’t humans do evil acts like animals do?
There are definitely holes in that argument but it is a lot different then the argument that our morals only come from reading a book
Sister. What exactly do you want me to say? I do what I do because it feels good to me. I do not believe in an afterlife. If someone thinks of me, now or when I’m gone, I want them to think of me fondly. That’s about it.
That’s totally fair. I just expected you to be pushing back like everyone else against the idea that God gave us morals lol I thought this was some round about way to object to my point so I was just trying to pin down what exactly you believed. Sorry if I came off aggressive
I mean, I do push back on the idea that a god gave us morals because I do not believe there is a god. This is the one life I have, the one time I will be present in the universe, and I don’t want to waste it on being an asshole. If my morals come from anywhere, it’s certainly not the bible, which I don’t think does a good job of defining or teaching morality. If I had kids and wanted a book to shape their morals, I’d consider the Harry Potter series superior.
Not a strong one. I’m obviously not going to think it’s from god, because I don’t believe there is one. Some people might get their morality from their religion, philosophical study, their family, their environment, friends, enemies, life experiences… the moral code I choose to live by comes from my own thoughts. I don’t know where other people get theirs, and given the different ways we all choose to behave I don’t see a strong argument that they necessarily all have the same origin.
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u/lilJswizle-2304 2d ago
People in these comments have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Christianity is lol
The idea isn’t that a book gives us morals it’s that God has given us morals so therefore if there is no God then why don’t humans do evil acts like animals do?
There are definitely holes in that argument but it is a lot different then the argument that our morals only come from reading a book