Gavin Ortlund responds to Jon Stewart’s reflections on belief and explores why the problem of evil raises even harder questions for atheism than for theism.
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121 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 22h
Its very true. Not exactly a great example of it.... but I have a work colleague / friend who is both an adamant atheist and a outspoken vegan (on ethical grounds).
I've tried to gently probe him to see if he sees the incongruity, but he claims its perfectly reasonable to hold both beliefs.
Now, I am all for treating animals ethically. But I just cant understand if we are all just random atoms bouncing around, why does it matter what a chicken feels....
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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 22h
Atheists, like everyone else, have preferences for how the world should be.
Disliking suffering and wanting less of it shouldn’t be hard to understand.
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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 22h
no one is truly an atheist. at most, you get people whose God is their own thoughts.
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 22h
Yeah. Or someone or some idea. We create our own gods. We create our own idols but usually it's looking at us in the mirror.
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18 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 22h
Yeah... we humans are full of hypocrisy. Athiest and Christian alike. There are reasons for morality outside of a belief in a God but it is hard for me to see this in humans consuming what they have consumed naturally for many thousands of years.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 22h
Humans also engaged in slavery for many thousands of years, as well as war and any number of moral abominations.
Doing something for a long time is not any sort of evidence that it’s ethical.
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