High Velocity Lie-Nap! wrote:Kraj 2.0 wrote:
For you to tell me that you really believe there isn't a God or a human soul yet you still live your life believing "We owe it to them (people, planet and life in general) to treat each other well" means you're either dishonest with yourself or you're a damn idiot. A true atheist -- someone who 110% believes in atheist philosophy -- could not be anything other than a cold-blooded narcissistic psychopath. To be anything other than that while still claiming you're an atheist just makes you a hypocrite.
I will never forget this topic coming-up here 5+ years ago. My daughter is my first born and was a crawling rug rat at the time. Those of you who are dads fully know how much your world perspective changes when your first child is born. No matter how many have told us our view changes, none of us 'got it' until we became fathers. I had my doubts about God for most of my life, to include calling myself an atheist in my teens, but they left when my daughter was born.
I (respectfully) asked the atheists if they love their families (specifically, their kids). The resounding and mostly snippety responses were "of course I do! What does that have to do with God, asshole????" That kind of thing. I think it was Andy who said science proved that love is just some function of our brain and nothing more, ect. Given their hardcore and dismissive responses to a higher power in ever other aspect of their lives or humanity, when it came to family, things got touchy.
I don't believe that animals 'love' their mates or offspring (and no, your fucking dogs and/or cats and/or birds and/or fish don't love you, no matter how much you or I 'love' them, either). They don't conceptualize faith, the future or the afterlife, either. I'm not a religious guy per se, but those and many more gifts (and challenges) must come from some sort of higher power to humans, for whatever reason, IMHO.
I can't see how a bonafide, hardcore, true to the bone atheist can possibly 'love' a family. What would be the point if every other aspect of your life is simply for the collective survival of us as organisms?
I'm not finger pointing here, I just can't see how people who call themselves atheists can cherish anything.