Most humans use a moral imperative when acting in life.
To say that this "morality" is of God, is not wrong.
To say that this "morality" is
not inside the human spirit is flawed.
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So, if people assumed that God does not exist, then they would be doomed to a life without fixed moral standards. They would have no reasons to think that lying, stealing, or even murder are wrong. According to this view, nonbelievers contribute to the corruption of themselves and the entire culture. (Cf the famous quote associated with Dostoevsky, "If God does not exist, everything is permitted"
Human beings, I believe, were created with a conscience. Although in our crazy history of ignorance, and atrocities it may seem that Humans are for their survival, are for noone else, this isn't true. But to assume that Humans need God as a guide for them to act "morally", "kindly", "humanely", is absolutely
wrong. This man speaks low of mankind, he must outright believes that humans are inherantly evil. Although this is cliche, a young woman under terrible human rights violations that this man has never experienced or will ever experiance, once said: "I believe people are good at heart." -Anne Frank
She in that one line shows all of us that there is hope for mankind, and that we cannot be disillusioned by indecent acts of unkindness on this earth, we must be of God. We must see through acts of desperation, the killing of millions for greed, the deaths of those who are us. We must see it like Jesus would, these people, these Hutus of Rwanda, these German Nazis, these are US. THEY ARE US. We are the Hutus... Yet we can change, we don't need to be shut down by the evil that surrounds us. We must remember that we are those that do these things, and that if we were in that same situation, we could be the ones with machetes in hand stained with human blood. For this, we can't see us in the world as unique, or special, and "incapable of that".
I know athiests, non-believers, who are great people, who their human spirit prevails in.
God is the originator of Morality, but by saying that non-believers corrupts my earth is a falacy. Non-believers are human, they seek.
God set the standards of humane living, we can all, if we deny his presence or not, live each day with these moral standards.
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