Reply To: Burn Baby Burn

[TJ]

I consider morality to simply being as fair as you can.

As for “an atheist morality”, that would be akin to a “stamp collector, or, a not a stamp collector’s”, morality, etc…in that there is no moral code required to not believe in gods.

That said, if you simply look at prison statistics, say, in the US for example, theists are over represented, and, atheists are under represented in the prison populations.

IE: There are almost no atheists in the prison system, some prisons have none for example.

 

If “Christian Morality” worked, we should EXPECT to see very few Christians in prison, and, if “Atheist Morality” did not work, we would expect most atheists to be in prison.

 

In reality, its the opposite, so, while there is no atheist moral code per se, whatever the Christian code is, produces far more criminals on a man for man basis….than a lack of a code.

 

Perhaps simply having human empathy, and treating others accordingly, is more effective than having a supernatural score keeper.

Perhaps the need to apologize to a fellow human being, for being unfair to them, and knowing that one is responsible for one’s own actions, and the repercussions, causes people to act more fairly to each other than a system where, if you are unfair to a human, you instead apologize to a supernatural entity instead of your victim?

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