tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post2381718430094456265..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: The Ethical Atheist Politician - Does It Really Matter?Alonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-31485962482082639192012-06-15T06:41:21.643-06:002012-06-15T06:41:21.643-06:00Actually, the question of "who" is not r...Actually, the question of "who" is not relevant to this analogy. It is a question about the relationship between premises and conclusions. Does it follow from the fact that scripture contains a prohibition against suffering a witch to live that it is a violation of religioys feedom for the state to prohibit the burning of witches?<br /><br />Answer: No.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-68583142443385926622012-06-14T22:38:38.985-06:002012-06-14T22:38:38.985-06:00There's a problem with your witch-burning anal...There's a problem with your witch-burning analogy, and I speak as someone whose ancestors were on both sides of the torch: It wasn't the church that condemned women to be killed for witchery, but the state. It was not the church that executed them, but the state. Tie up all the priests back of the chancel, and you wouldn't stop the executions.The White Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732782601569135839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-60484297569979694682012-06-04T05:58:40.330-06:002012-06-04T05:58:40.330-06:00Serously, Stan, take a look at this "foundati...Serously, Stan, take a look at this "foundation" you are so proud of.<br /><br />It is that foundationt that includes the claim that "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."<br /><br />It holds that the punishment for rape is that the victim must marry the rapist.<br /><br />It condones the use of weapons of mass destruction to achieve a political objective. If somebody today were to release a biological agent into a population that killed all first-born children, we would call them a terrorist and one of the most vile and evil creatures imaginable.<br /><br />It destroyes a city because an agent could not find "5o righteous men" when given only 1 night to do so. What about the children?<br /><br />There are a lot of religious fanatics around today who will think nothing about setting off a nuclear bomb inside of a city - precisely because they adopt the same attitudes as those expressed by God in these lessons.<br /><br />Plus he turns a woman to salt for the crime of turning around and witnessing the act of destruction.<br /><br />The slaughter of a whole village for the crime of worshipping a cow?<br /><br />This religious foundation you speak of is so clearly not the work of a divine benevolence. It is the invention of morally primitive human beings. Thinking that it is the first and last word in morality is utter nonsense.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-12563385428751666282012-06-03T11:53:37.197-06:002012-06-03T11:53:37.197-06:00Stan
Well, actually, it is religion that has no m...<b>Stan</b><br /><br />Well, actually, it is religion that has no moral foundation other than the ignorance and primative superstitions of a pre-literate culture.<br /><br />Whereas atheism has the advantage of being able to incorporate moral findings discovered in the past 2000 years that religion ignores.<br /><br />As evidence of the divide here, it does not seem to be legitimate to argue that it is perfectly legitimate to do harm to others so long as they are not captured and imprisoned against their will. It seems that there are a great many moral harms that do not have this requirement.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-29791815628379620702012-06-03T05:53:35.580-06:002012-06-03T05:53:35.580-06:00Comparison to burning witches is a false analogy a...Comparison to burning witches is a false analogy and over the top rhetoric. The subject is people who are voluntarily employed and who are not captured or imprisoned against their will, and an employer which need not even provide insurance at all. Taking employment with an ethics-based employer must always involve respect for the ethics of the employer, if one uses even a modicum of common sense.<br /><br />Further, Atheism has no ethics attached to it, no moral code. So making moral sounding noises is self-contradictory.<br /><br />Using your rhetoric, the Atheo-secular government could force religions to do whatever the Atheists want it to do. This is totalitarianism, a common side effect of AtheismStanhttp://atheism-analyzed.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-29805861944151831542012-06-01T08:20:08.743-06:002012-06-01T08:20:08.743-06:00Anonymous
You seem to be suffering from a common ...<b>Anonymous</b><br /><br />You seem to be suffering from a common prejudice against atheists.<br /><br />See my post on June 1.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-23579677617450288612012-05-31T11:12:37.145-06:002012-05-31T11:12:37.145-06:00Athiesm is too religious for me.Athiesm is too religious for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-4820223084455576902012-05-30T16:55:34.879-06:002012-05-30T16:55:34.879-06:00Absolutely spot on. Thank you for this.Absolutely spot on. Thank you for this.Bookgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818125401769011993noreply@blogger.com