Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2017 5:44 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2017 5:01 pm
From a consistent Atheist viewpoint, nothing is wrong with that, or with anything else, for that matter.
It appears that you're using your uneven and extreme view of "what an Atheist is" as a wave-of-the-hand technique to avoid responding to questions regarding questionable behavior/thinking of theists. Yes?
No. I'm dispassionately describing what Atheism as an ideology entails.
But if you think I'm not, then it's easy to prove it. Just give me one moral precept an Atheist is morally bound to believe. If you can find one, then I'm wrong. If you can't, then I'm clearly right.
Either way, it requires no personal arguments.
All that matters is WHAT THE PERSON DOES.
As per Atheism, you would have no view at all of what a person should or should not do. There is no morality.
Doesn't this seem reasonable to you? What would be more reasonable?
Well, that Atheists should either live 100% as Atheists -- admitting and acting on everything their ideology rationally requires of them -- or stop playing pretend. That seems reasonable.
Unfortunately for Atheism, I've never met a single person who had that kind of rational consistency. But it's very fortunate for all the rest of us humans that they do not, because totally amoral people would be potentially very dangerous for us.
Doesn't it also seem reasonable that non-theists would oppose anyone continually telling them that they're going to some sort of hell because some sort of god said so...
It would depend. If Atheists actually
are on the road to a lost eternity without God, and if nobody pointed it out to them, then it would seem very bad for a person NOT to say something to them.