Atheism, a dangerous idea?

If you have a purpose for being a nihilist, doesn't that imply that you are not a nihilist?

I happened to bump into this web page. It seems pertinent to the topic under discussion here.

So when you were agnostic, you believed in following the golden rule, and you thought that was good.When atheists believe in following the golden rule, you label that "the greater good" and you apparently think that is bad.So when did you stop following the golden rule? How can you consider yourself a Christian, when you say that following the golden rule is bad?

Then read it again, and again, and again, ... I understood you all too well. I'm wondering if you understand yourself.It seems that you have been fed a line of horse manure by right wing fundies. And apparently have swallowed it without even attempting to check whether it is correct.

Why not? The liberals and atheists that I know are very moral people, and they do follow the golden rule. Many liberals are christians. So why are you questioning their morality? In what way were you following the golden rule, when you categorized "liberals and atheists" as a group with suspect morality? Wasn't that entire post of yours (Message 34) in violation of the golden rule?

Where are you getting that crazy idea?The atheist gets his morals from society, just as the Christian does.

But keep in mind that he follows the golden rule

50 years ago, many Christian fundamentalists were racists, and were quoting scripture as the basis for their racism.Those are really great moral standards you can point to, riVeRraT. Or maybe Christians actually get their morality in the same way as everybody else - from their community. When their religious communities supported racism, that was part of their morality. Now that most religious communities have rejected racism, it is no long part of their morality.I put it to you that the difference you see in morality for atheists vs Christians is no more than a figment of your imagination.

Is that intended as a comment on capital punishment? And if not, why not?

If I am correctly reading the headline article in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune, maybe Ireland comes close. (The article suggests that they are abandoning catholicism in droves).

I am inclined to agree with that.

Maybe that's because you mostly post on nihilism, and I disagree with you about that. We probably agree on a lot, but there isn't much to debate when everybody agrees. I sometimes describe that by saying that the true American religion is worship of the almighty dollar.But, yes, that's one of the things suggesting unadmitted atheism.To most Americans, religiosity seems to be little more than a social convention. Attendance at church is no more important than attendance at the Kiwanis club or the Elks lodge.

In its basic sense, atheism is a-theism, or living ones life without theism. For all practical purposes, a nominal Christian is an atheist. Yes, sure, I agree.