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To: elcid1970

And to quote many other Atheists, “If God didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent him”. So if you know deep down inside that God(s) don’t exist and you know that if enough people figured out god didn’t exist and would commit so many atrocities if they knew god didn’t exist, why continue to push the concept of god not existing?

What philosophy can you use to replace the morals cobbled up by eons of theism that would replace theist-based morality that can’t be abused by the morally insane? Humanism has tried to make a “new morality” but they’ve failed because the “new morality” either takes away rights of the individual to please the many or it quickly becomes a paradise for sociopaths.

If you’re an Atheist, it would be irresponsible and immoral to destroy the concept of God(s) when you know that’s the only thing keeping many psychopaths from abusing people.

And that’s why God himself doesn’t make himself provable via scientific experiments. He doesn’t want psychopaths worshiping him out of fear.


12 posted on 12/20/2011 10:25:52 AM PST by NorthStarStateConservative
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To: NorthStarStateConservative
I'm not sure that true psychopaths are particularly deterred from crime by religious doctrine. However, I do agree with you that theism is generally a characteristic of stable and long-lasting civilizations.

But the fact that there have been and are so many theisms, most of which have had the same stabilizing effect, provides no argument whatever that any one theism is any more "true" than the others.

14 posted on 12/20/2011 10:35:36 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Liberalism: Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory!!)
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