Quote from: CoinCube on December 11, 2018, 04:02:15 AM

Quote from: af_newbie on December 11, 2018, 12:07:03 AM

Dictatorial regimes don't follow moral codes. Are you new here on Earth? Your Bible did not save Christians or Jews who were killed in Auschwitz, nor it prevented Christians from killing other Christians or Jews.

Every society follows some kind of moral code.

Sometimes that code can be as simple as the strongest rule and the weak are slaves. Usually it's more complex.

Democratic rule does not prevent tyranny it is not exempt from injustice and immorally. Review the history of Athens if you want to understand this better.

Tyranny of the majority was one of the greatest concerns of the US founding fathers. It the reasons they took such great effort to limit the power of direct democracy. Everything from the selection of Senators by state representatives, the selection of the president via the Electoral College, and the limits of voting to land owners were all attempts to lower the risk of a tyrannical mob rule.

Your stated standard is "you are automatically a good person if you are following the moral code that your society accepts." This is a very problematic code that highlights the profound detachment from reality your philosophy and atheism leads into.

I noticed you did not really refute my examples above. Via your standard any horror if accepted by a society becomes "good" and the perpetrators of said horror are "good people". With this standard you are lost in a morass of relativism a natural consequence of rejecting the divine.

Quote from: af_newbie on December 11, 2018, 12:07:03 AM

You think the Bible will save you from a dictatorship? You are confusing your delusional religious beliefs with political systems.
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Judeo-Christian ideology is no different than other inhumane ideologies. Nazism and Communism included.

You lack an understanding of the pivotal role of the Judeo-Christian tradition in facilitating coordination and driving progress over time.

I discussed this topic in some depth here:
Religion and Progress

Quote from: af_newbie on December 11, 2018, 12:07:03 AM

I did not reject God. There is nothing to reject. Why can't you get this through your head is beyond me?

You were raised religious and brought up to accept and worship God. You and later rejected both that tradition and God. We have real issues of dispute we should not waste our time on word games.

Quote from: af_newbie on April 11, 2017, 09:01:13 PM

I came from a highly religious family, went through Catholic school system, both primary and secondary, I was an altar boy
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What I saw, was corruption, abuse on pretty much every level imaginable.

I was born into a Catholic family. That was not my choice. I did not choose God to later reject him.

I ignored stories about God the same way other kids ignored stories about Santa Claus.

Then my critical thinking skills did the rest when I turned about 12. I started asking questions for which I got a wholesome beating from a holy nun. Nasty, old, big nosed bitch she was. It became a routine, I asked a question, class laughed, I got a beating, back to drawing Jesus feeding the hungry and raising some schmucks from dead.

I rejected God the same you reject Santa Claus. The same reason: fictional character.

BTW, why did you reject Santa Claus? Please do tell.