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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion. [/quote]

That's because you are brainwashed, and you do not realize the hard your beliefs are doing to the world (and have for a long time).

Open your eyes and see that there is insufficient evidence to believe there is a god - certainly not to the point where you need to enforce these crazy bronze-age beliefs on others through public policy and societal pressures.  That is TRUE evil.  REAL evil.  Evil that you put on REAL humans EVERY DAY.[/quote]

And you aren't using public policy and societal pressures to enforce your beliefs? Ask yourself - if you moved to a country where Sharia law was in effect, or a community governed by Orthodox Jews or the left's favorite hated Christian nationalists, would you try to make change? And do you think some people would - gasp - disagree?[/quote]

Yes.  Because my beliefs are better and more moral than yours, [b]as well as being reinforced by the US constitution[/b].[/quote]

More moral by what standard? What sets the objective outside standard for you?

And as far as the bolded, the constitution places limits on what the federal government can do regarding free assembly, free speech, freedom of religious exercise and the like. It absolutely doesn't prioritize non-belief over belief. In fact it's there to say the government may not do that, just like they may not decide Anglicans or the Bahai Faith are the true religion of the US.[/quote]

Why would I possibly need anyone to set a standard outside of my own morality?  That's nonsense.

And I disagree with you on what the constitution says.  It says no established religion, which means you can't make policy based on xtianity or any other equally BS myth.  But that is happening.[/quote]

You said "more moral." I asked "by what standard." You said "me."

So you're now the arbiter of morality?[/quote]

The irony exhibited in your statement, when your hole ethos is based on the idea that you know what behavior is required or else you will suffer hell for eternity, is so far off the charts I cannot reply to it.  You have exactly 0% self-awareness.

I'll put it this way: if you believe in the things endorsed in the bible (slavery, murder, infanticide, incest, persecution of homosexuals, denial of bodily autonomy, the list goes on and on), my morality is way, way superior to yours.  Without question.[/quote]

And yet the Nazis, per the account of Ellie Wiesel, also thought they were more moral than others.

[quote]Yet they were people like us. Part of the internal anguish in examining the Holocaust comes from wondering whether we actually could do what they did. Some claim the Nazis were completely psychopathic. Others disagree, like Elie Wiesel who wrote that, "They did not think that what they were doing was wrong. They were convinced that what they did was good" [11]. They thought they were doing what was best for humanity, or at least for their Volk. Then and now, the same questions were asked. "Who shall live and who shall die? And, Who belongs to the community entitled to our protection? Then and now, the subject at hand is killing, and letting die, and helping to die, and using the dead" [12]. Then and now, similar arguments based on similar worldviews were used to justify controversial practices.[/quote]
(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1484488/)

My point is simply that whenever individual humans or small groups of humans are the arbiter of morality, you can get to some really dark and scary places within a few years, or decades. Isn't that [i]exactly[/i] what people are worried about with the Trump administration? And yet your argument is "but my way is superior just because it is!" That's not actually one of the rational arguments many other atheists on this forum claim for their side, because it has no argument or reason associated with it, but gut feeling.

If you said, like some, that careful consideration of the natural world grounded your morality that would be an argument. Or if you said like others than humanity agreed on a set of goals and ethics and reasoned out morality from there, that would be an argument (one I have seen on this forum). But to just declare the self-evident superiority of your morality over the morality of all religions everywhere (and to lump them together is ridiculous, BTW) is not an argument.[/quote]

So you don't think your morality is superior to the Nazi's?  I bet you do, and I bet it is.  So you do the same thing.

I am sure mine is.

As I am sure it is better that the morality in the bible as described above.[/quote]

As you are well aware, we are going to 100% differ on where our starting point for an argument is. I think an outside standard (God) determines morality. You have yet to seriously interact with [i]any[/i] of the arguments for external moral standards.

Based on the system of argument through which I see the world [i]it does not matter what I think about a moral code.[/i] Based on your system, that's all that matters. My point is - when you leave it up to individuals, you aren't guarateed a good outcome. But you haven't interacted with that argument at all either.[/quote]

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