Why Are Atheists Moral

Originally posted by queeq
What usual discussion?

You are better be careful, or you will get sucked into one. 😱

I've been spat out by a couple... 😉 Does that count?

Originally posted by queeq
I've been spat out by a couple... 😉 Does that count?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
🙄

Yes, roll your eyes, because you cannot supply the information that he requested.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Yes, roll your eyes, because you cannot supply the information that he requested.

I don't want to encourage his line of questioning, because there is only has one reason for it. He is fishing for some way to discredit me. This is trolling, and he knows it. He is angry at me and wants to strike out at me. He is not listening to what I have to say; he is just trying to twist thinks to rationalize his behavior.

I appetite what you are doing; I know how you feel about him.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I don't want to encourage his line of questioning, because there is only has one reason for it. He is fishing for some way to discredit me. This is trolling, and he knows it. He is angry at me and wants to strike out at me. He is not listening to what I have to say; he is just trying to twist thinks to rationalize his behavior.

The same could be said of you.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The same could be said of you.

No. I never personally attacked him. I said what he was doing was wrong.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
No. I never personally attacked him. I said what he was doing was wrong.

He did not state that you personally attacked him. He stated that you singled him out for criticism, which you did.

Is someone being a bad, bad Buddhist? 😛

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
He did not state that you personally attacked him. He stated that you singled him out for criticism, which you did.

I did not single him out. I did not follow him around from thread to thread to attack him.

I have personally never thought that just because Atheists aren't religious that they aren't moral. I do, however, believe that morality is more than doing the right thing, it's doing the right thing for the right reason.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
He is fishing for some way to discredit me.

Discredit you why? I am not addressing your on-topic contributions, I am addressing your criticism of off-topic conversation.

This is the situation, and you provide not one iota of evidence to the contrary:

Queeq and I argue, you see it and don't like it and only hold one of the two of us responsible. This is simply not the case?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You are better be careful, or you will get sucked into one. 😱

Sound advice, except you sucked yourself into this.

That may be illegal in some states, check it out.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I appetite what you are doing; I know how you feel about him.

Are you saying that you and queeq had a six year homosexual relationship?

Originally posted by Devil King
Look man, I don't define your stance, you do.

Agreed.

Originally posted by Devil King
But what you can not do is define yourself as half mormon and half atheist.

Agreed. I have defined myself as a Mormon with severe doubts stemming from atheism.

Originally posted by Devil King
Repeatedly I have addressed healthy skepticism. Skepticism is a natural and widely regarded aspect of faith, from Mother Theresa on down to the people she "helped".

Very much agreed.

Originally posted by Devil King
But to claim that you are atheist one mintue and mormon the next, based clearly on your own claims that you dismiss your religion when it is convient for you, you add credence to neither your claim to be mormon nor your claim to be atheist.

Very much agreed.

Originally posted by Devil King
That simply is not how religion works.

That is not the intended purpose, but all healthy perspectives should have questioning and doubts. You know this. Just about any leader in any religion knows that that is how it does work with religion.

Originally posted by Devil King
The over all meaning to your post seems to be that you are confused, as are most human beings; hence the human responce of religion at all.

Very much agreed.

Originally posted by Devil King
But the consistantly hypocritical nature of your claim of daily family prayer and weekly visits to the church despite your supposed atheist tendancies are simply not comprable.

I am not sure what that last word was supposed to be....but I assume that it was supposed to be "uncompromisable"(And a deletion of the word "not".)

If that is the case, then you are correct. If my religious leaders knew how severe my doubts were, I would probably get into trouble of sorts.

Also, we have discussed this point already...I am allowed to go through the motions until I set my mind straight.

Originally posted by Devil King
If anything, it sounds like you resort to atheism as a matter of argument and not practice.

Actually just the opposite. One of the main things I love about Mormonism: I can argue about it against the willfully idiotic/ignorant and educate the ignorant. Mormonism is really fun to debate because there are so many things about it. Atheism is my Mormon kryptonite. 😄

(I didn't go back over my post and proof read it.)

Originally posted by Kapton JAC
I do, however, believe that morality is more than doing the right thing, it's doing the right thing for the right reason.

Doing the right thing for the right reason?

hmmmmm....I want to call that righteousness and not morality...but "right thing" and "right reason" are defined by the morals of a social system anyway......"righteousness" would definitely be defined by this same society.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Agreed.

Agreed. I have defined myself as a Mormon with severe doubts stemming from atheism.

Very much agreed.

Very much agreed.

That is not the intended purpose, but all healthy perspectives should have questioning and doubts. You know this. Just about any leader in any religion knows that that is how it does work with religion.

Very much agreed.

I am not sure what that last word was supposed to be....but I assume that it was supposed to be "uncompromisable"(And a deletion of the word "not".)

If that is the case, then you are correct. If my religious leaders knew how severe my doubts were, I would probably get into trouble of sorts.

Also, we have discussed this point already...I am allowed to go through the motions until I set my mind straight.

Actually just the opposite. One of the main things I love about Mormonism: I can argue about it against the willfully idiotic/ignorant and educate the ignorant. Mormonism is really fun to debate because there are so many things about it. Atheism is my Mormon kryptonite. 😄

(I didn't go back over my post and proof read it.)

Christ, you're like a Paula Abdul video.

Originally posted by Devil King
Christ, you're like a Paula Abdul video.

FAIL!

because it is a culture reference that I would NEVER get. 🙁

One sep forward two steps back, I think was the video.

I'm not really sure I remember it perfectly. There was a cartoon wolf smoking; that I do remember.

'Opposites attract'