Posted: Sep 15, 2014 9:03 am
Anyone who thinks that you can argue your body into behaving differently by reflecting on the objective point or value of such behaviour is, most likely, as we speak, massively failing with their current exercise regime/relationship/promotion prospects/alcoholics anonymous meetings/whatever.InfernalTank wrote:http://triablogue.blogspot.fr/2012/07/funeral-for-atheism.html
love to know a good response to this
So there's no objective grounds not to go around murdering people. So what? I really, really have no inclination whatsoever to murder anyone. I also have no inclination whatsoever to eat my own shit. I make that comparison because I find that both disinclinations are controlled quite heavily by a visceral sense of disgust, and that's probably enough for me.
What gives me the creeps about theists who bang on about objective morality is the prospect that, if it weren't for their stupid religious texts, they would happily go out and do some horrible crime or fulfill some other sick fantasies like those their good Old Testament God enjoyed. I mean, is their belief in objective morality the only thing standing in the way of their wish to act like complete shit-heads? In that case, let's just point out that these people are shit-heads, plain and simple, and that if their Bibles are just a leash that stops them hurting anyone, you don't want to have any association with them.