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In reply to the discussion: Where do you atheists get your morals? [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)9. Actually there is a famous case involving cheese
and the the sixteenth century Inquisition. Menhocchio found himself brought before the Inquisition for describing creation as like the making of cheese: "All was chaos, that is earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and of that bulk a mass formedjust as cheese is made out of milkand worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."
Carlo Guizburg's The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller chronicles the story: http://www.amazon.com/Cheese-Worms-Cosmos-Sixteenth-Century-Miller/dp/0801843871
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You can have mine. It's highly overrated and can be dangerous to your health. nt
Walk away
Jan 2013
#27
"The difference is we know that, and don't spin tales about some god giving it to us."
cleanhippie
Jan 2013
#91
"God" is also not a valid source of morality, and neither is "religious belief".
D23MIURG23
Jan 2013
#121
The virtue of atheism is that it enables analysis of moral precepts on their own merits.
D23MIURG23
Jan 2013
#128
Indeed, many religions make ridiculous claims about the origins of ethics and morality.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#96
No you are accusing atheism of not doing something it doesn't claim to do.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#152
Yes of course. I was being flip. I should have said that the discussion that
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#159
Atheism couldn't speak if it wanted to. 'it does not apply' is a better way to say it.
AAO
Jan 2013
#188
My post merely points out that religion often has little do do with "morality"
intaglio
Jan 2013
#104
But the question in the OP concerns the source of morality for atheist, not religious people.
rug
Jan 2013
#105
Derived from basic Human Rights, just like it always was before some needed divinity to enforce it
on point
Jan 2013
#49
As a named concept yes, but I would argue early morality is human rights in religious guise
on point
Jan 2013
#149
Mostly I want to be honest and kind because I like people to like me and be happy.
brewens
Jan 2013
#53
It's the Great Potato. See the Dinosaurs episode "The Greatest Story Every Sold" (nt)
thesquanderer
Jan 2013
#61
I agree with your last sentence though people are imperfect and may act in unethical ways
yurbud
Jan 2013
#155
I was raised catholic, but my agnostic husband is more 'moral' than anyone I grew up with
Fight2Win
Jan 2013
#178