Lunelle wrote:Kurieuo wrote:[*]Atheists often say that God would be morally wrong to allow pain and suffering in the world if He is all-powerful and all-benevolent (or say "send people to hell"). Yet, the reality of concepts are not physically sensed--including objective moral concepts that some things really are wrong while other things really are bad regardless of what anyone thinks. Such wreaks of Theism.
Ohhh, morality, one of my favourite topics! Your opinion that some things "really are wrong", is commonly held by theist, but I believe it is incorrect, and medical science has nearly completely dis-proven it. A simple example is the legal defence of being under duress. If you steal something for someone while under duress (say they had a gun to your head), it would be bad, but not wrong. Even if your claim of universal morality is correct, that doesn't mean that two wrongs make a right (a fallacy of relevance). Surely it is wrong to torture someone in a burning pit of fire for all eternity... or do you believe that such behaviour is moral? Really, this is a claim against anti-theists though, not atheists. Atheists don't say "God would be morally wrong", or they'd be believing in the existence of God, now wouldn't they? Sneaky!
Lunelle, I'm glad you ultimately agree with me that Atheists are inconsistent with their beliefs.
The fact you believe somethings are really wrong (like burning someone in a pit of fire) would appear to contradict your opening sentence where you state it as incorrect that "some things really are wong". Oh dear. Really? Is it, or is it not, wrong to torture someone in a burning pit of fire for all eternity?
Furthermore, moral laws are not the same as moral values. Laws may differ from one society to the next, but usually the same values are realised. That "love" is a morally a good value, whereas "hate" is not. In fact, Christ Himself said that all the Law is fulfilled in love. It is in my opinion, the ultimate moral value from which all else proceeds is love, including many moral laws.
Lunelle wrote:Kurieuo wrote:[*]Atheists often claim to be free thinkers, while embracing that we're the product of entirely physical processes and could not be other than what we are (Determinism).
I have to disagree with you, I've never heard an atheist say "we're the product of entirely physical processes and could not be other than what we are." Besides, what does that have to do with god(s)? That's an argument against determenists.
An Atheist is free to believe in more than having a lack of belief in God no? They're still people aren't they... people with beliefs? If so, then your comments have no real bearing. Furthermore, you're avoiding the stated issue.
Tell me your view on reality? Are you saying that you believe we are more than what is physical? If not, how is it we rise above the physical processes? You have my sincere interest if you are willing to put something on the table.
Lunelle wrote:Kurieuo wrote:[*]Atheists often claim moral superiority in doing "good" for goodness sake rather than God's sake, yet what is the superior morality of which they speak and how is it they stand above the physical processes that constructed them to be "morally superior"?
How petty! Does it really matter who is "morally superior"?
I wouldn't expect anything less from someone who believes in no real morality... or who disagrees with some things being really wrong... like what? Rape -- that's not wrong? Pedophilia -- that's not wrong? Torturing someone for fun -- that's not wrong?
Oh wait! Sorry, to qualify you do believe believe it is wrong, surely wrong, at least for God to torture someone in a burning pit of fire for all eternity. While woefully strawmanish, this statement does seem to make you appear "morally superior" in your own eyes.
Lunelle wrote:Kurieuo wrote:[*]Atheists often adhere to Physicalism, yet then believe what we sense of the world is true of the world. Yet Science, particularly physics, forces us to conclude that the world contains colourless particles and waves. Colour is therefore an illusion, a mental abstraction of the physical world that in fact nowhere exists in the physical world. A tinge of inconsistency here perhaps?
Well, I wrote about a page on this point, and decided to scrap it. I believe you're just talking about the fishbowl problem again, and making it more complicated with an example of vision.
You keep mentioning fishbowls. Please do explain what your problem is with fishbowls? I'm not sure I know what you mean.
Were you tortured in a fishbowl growing up or something? I hope it wasn't God torturing you. That'd make it wrong on so many levels don't you think?
Lunelle wrote:Kurieuo wrote:[*]Atheism is built upon the hypocrisy of beliefs it pretends to have, but ultimately cannot sustain.
You seem not to understand the term atheism. Atheism doesn't pretend, or hold any beliefs.
Yet again, it is impossible, not to mention a fallacy, to try to defend something that doesn't exist (the lack of belief in god(s)).
That remains debatable. As I pointed out in a thread elsewhere, Atheism carries with it a "belief set" and certain presuppositions, especially for a person who defines himself as an Atheist compared to say a baby who perhaps truly has no real beliefs on matters concerning God.