It brings a tear to the eye to listen to leading Preachers in Atheism imploring their flock to greater heights in moral living.
Do good.
Be good.
For the sake of Atheism show the world what being an atheist can do for your character.
How disheartening it must be to run away from organized religion because it tells you how to live, only to smack headlong into organized Atheism and find it telling you how to live.
Ah, me, could life be any sweeter?
You see, if people are already good, and atheists are infamous for telling us that they don't need God because they are good, then you shouldn't t need to encourage those kinds of people to BE good. One should be able to assume that they're already doing good things. Reality proves otherwise but . . . still.
We Christians, on the other hand come to Jesus because He's allowed us to recognize that we ARE NOT good. It makes perfect sense for our leaders to encourage us toward better behaviour because in reality, we're immoral to the core. But atheists?
If you need material for a comedy series, take a peek at atheism. There's enough there for a life-time.
You see, if people are already good, and atheists are infamous for telling us that they don't need God because they are good, then you shouldn't t need to encourage those kinds of people to BE good. One should be able to assume that they're already doing good things. Reality proves otherwise but . . . still.
We Christians, on the other hand come to Jesus because He's allowed us to recognize that we ARE NOT good. It makes perfect sense for our leaders to encourage us toward better behaviour because in reality, we're immoral to the core. But atheists?
If you need material for a comedy series, take a peek at atheism. There's enough there for a life-time.
When speaking of “ought” and “should” and “objective morality,” atheists are using language borrowed from a world-view to which they are in direct opposition. On atheism, moral values simply cannot be applied to feelings, motives, thoughts and behaviours. Ideas of moral responsibility, regret, praise or blame, are anathema to a deterministic, natural universe. Of course, like the laws of mathematics, and the laws of logic, atheists claim that we invent the laws of morality rather than discover them.
Understandably, and I do understand, atheists would love for moral freedom of choice, and objective morality itself to not exist. Many a famous atheist has announced that his love of, and acceptance of atheism rests firmly on his desire to not be beholding to any restrictions on his lusts and desires. “Let's just do it like they do it on the Animal Channel.”
