Thy Plague Doctor

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]

I like a choice of gods – I can cherry pick exactly which attributes suit my moods on any given day.  Yesterday, it was the god of hot bath water that received my abject gratitude.  Today, the god of pool filters was mysteriously absent when I needed him (pool filters are heavy and messy, hence my gender attribution).  Don’t even mention the bl…[Read more]

Understanding the distinction between right and wrong – that in itself demands a cohesive definition structure around the words ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.  We can possibly define it as ‘harm’ and ‘no harm’ but eventually people’s circumstances will shape that definition and it will diverge between societies.  The term ‘the greater good’ is one bandied a…[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]

Howl at the moon with the niece. It would be a whole lot more fun than trying to persuade her to conform. Embrace the unusual!