The Unwilling Agnostic- Part Two
In my previous blog, I explained why The God Delusion helped me begin to differentiate between the classic concept of God and my spiritual beliefs. As I began to question my faith in faith, so to speak, this naturally led me to my second issue with atheism: its lack of absolute morality. Like many theists, I felt that a belief in some supernatural
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a point that I just touched upon in my comment in your previous entry. And when a person's faith differs from that of another's is where problems arise. The religious, or rather those who practice organized religion, are so consumed by their religion being the so called "right" one, that they often fail to realize the similarities between themselves...that they are more alike in their religions than not. Culture is something entirely different, and I think that people often times confuse the two.
"Religious people show no difference in their choices when faced by hypotherical moral dilemmas as compared to irreligious people."
Hauser couldnt be any more dead on! I hate the fact that those who are not of a practicing relgion are often persecuted by those that do practice as being amoral. Morals and religion are not synonymous with one another!
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