The idea I find especially bizarre is the argument that atheists have no morals and just do whatever they feel like because they don't believe in life after death (i.e. reward or punishment after death.) It would be pretty scary if I thought the people spouting this would actually believe it if they thought it through, because seriously, the only reason you don't murder people is because you're afraid of what you've been told will happen after you die?
But in fact, I suspect most are simply repeating it because they've been told it and thought "yeah, that makes sense," not because they've thought it through. And I doubt even most of the people who taught it to them have ever bothered to think about what it says about them.
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But in fact, I suspect most are simply repeating it because they've been told it and thought "yeah, that makes sense," not because they've thought it through. And I doubt even most of the people who taught it to them have ever bothered to think about what it says about them.