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Originally Posted by Jetty3
If atheism is true: The universe has laws.
These laws cannot be violated. Life is a product of these laws and can only exists in harmony with those laws and is governed by them. Therefore, human thought, feelings, etc., are programmed responses to stimuli and the atheist cannot legitimately claim to have meaning in life.
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Originally Posted by Arch Enemy
It is standard operating procedure for a Christian apologist to point out that all ethics and morals come from God. It is, so they claim, therefore impossible for the Atheist to be a moral person. Many Atheists counter this argument by pointing out that as a matter of fact they are ethical persons and that they know the difference between right and wrong.
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True to form you are introducing a rebuttal to an arguement that was not made. My post does not assert that atheist are incapable of morals. The point of the post is that without God, any social propriety that may evolve is reduced to a programmed response to the evolutionary process.
I know MANY people that are very moral without being Christian. The two are not mutually exclusive.