Originally posted by Mountain Man
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Rather, if atheism is true, then several conclusions necessarily follow, one of which is that there is no objective morality. Despite this, you contrarily value qualities like empathy, but if morality is truly subjective, then being empathetic doesn't make you a good person any more than lacking empathy makes you a bad person.
We may as well be discussing which flavors of ice cream you prefer for all the moral significance it has. Furthermore, even if everyone on earth agreed that empathy was a good thing, if atheism is true, and if morality is subjective, then nobody has any obligation to be empathetic.
The fact that you instinctively buck against these necessary conclusions of your own worldview should be a wakeup call to atheists, but instead you settle into the warm comfort of cognitive dissonance and continue declaring that morality is subjective while behaving as if it's objective.
The fact that you instinctively buck against these necessary conclusions of your own worldview should be a wakeup call to atheists, but instead you settle into the warm comfort of cognitive dissonance and continue declaring that morality is subjective while behaving as if it's objective.
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