Posted: Jul 05, 2011 11:42 am
I'm not that impressed by Hitchens's claim about theists and ethical statements, but this response:
Is quite lacklustre. An atheist can be a natural law theorist and so make this sort of claim; she would probably just use a regular "c" for "creator".
Moshe Averick wrote:Try this ethical statement on for size: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and have been endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, and among these are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Nobody heard of the Declaration of Independence? Perhaps he posed the question on a speaking tour through Lithuania.
Is quite lacklustre. An atheist can be a natural law theorist and so make this sort of claim; she would probably just use a regular "c" for "creator".