Cyn Armistead

As for your critique of humanist principles as bulky, I’ve never heard anyone claim that five basic principles is a “bulky” one. Personally I’ve never read a moral system that was spelled out in less than 100 pages. These principles are embedded in the EU and followed by all of the most democratic and prosperous countries in the world. Humanism…[Read more]

David I am not arguing that atheist morality doesn’t exist, there simply isn’t one. Unless you can spell it out for me. I’d be curious what hundreds of millions of Chinese and Vietnamese atheists (who make up quite the majority of the Worlds atheists) would have in common per the moral systems of atheists in the UK or the United States or…[Read more]

The first moral code of atheism then

Atheism is a lack of belief in God. There is no atheist moral code. Take a random sample of 10 atheists in the world (China, Germany, Canada, Brazil, North Korea, Phillippines, the USA, Denmark, Russia, Vietnam) and you’ll find extremely different moral codes of which none are exceptional to atheists. Their…[Read more]

Hey Umar. Three comments/questions:

1. Is it possible to have a multi-threaded format. It’s much much easier to follow a conversation with replies embedded in replies (like the reply tree we had at thinkatheist).

2. The web version will not allow me to load the desktop. The web version is just as limiting as TA was, but with TA I could try to…[Read more]

The feature I would hope to see soon, is a “reply” link. That is, on TA you clicked on the Person replied to xxxx, and that link brought you to the actual reply that user made in the thread. Otherwise you have to go through the whole thread to find their response, which is tedious. I think it’s an essential feature that is needed here.

I hope we…[Read more]

In fact…most people in all cultures tend to agree on the principle shade of common colour terms (assuming that culture has the specific colour term). Given swatches with dozens of different hues…almost everyone within a culture that has a colour term for red…chooses lipstick red or at worst one or two slightly different shades darker or…[Read more]