Comments on: What I can’t answer… http://postblink.com/2008/04/23/what-i-cant-answer/ Rants about music & life. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-alpha-15359 By: Lucas http://postblink.com/2008/04/23/what-i-cant-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-3353 Lucas Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:13:36 +0000 http://postblink.com/?p=225#comment-3353 I understand the biblical reasons to be good, but I don't live by them. I try to live a good life because it's something I believe I should do, regardless of whether someone did or did not die on a cross - and simply because I don't do it for my faith is enough for many people to say that I'm wrong or going to hell. I don't think that's right, by any means. I don't tell them they may or may not get in to a heaven that may or may not exist simply because they blindly follow something. I try to keep a bit more of an open mind than that. Anyways - in conclusion, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I believe there are reasons to lead a good life other than for your faith, whatever that may be, and that any bickering between atheists and religious groups is pointless. Perhaps that makes me an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism" title="Apatheist" rel="nofollow">apatheist</a>? I understand the biblical reasons to be good, but I don’t live by them. I try to live a good life because it’s something I believe I should do, regardless of whether someone did or did not die on a cross – and simply because I don’t do it for my faith is enough for many people to say that I’m wrong or going to hell.

I don’t think that’s right, by any means. I don’t tell them they may or may not get in to a heaven that may or may not exist simply because they blindly follow something. I try to keep a bit more of an open mind than that.

Anyways – in conclusion, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I believe there are reasons to lead a good life other than for your faith, whatever that may be, and that any bickering between atheists and religious groups is pointless. Perhaps that makes me an apatheist?

]]> By: Robert http://postblink.com/2008/04/23/what-i-cant-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-3350 Robert Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:09:53 +0000 http://postblink.com/?p=225#comment-3350 Would you love your (spouse, children, family, friends) still if it was proved to you there was no God? Of course you would. Now, why, logically, should you love your (spouse, children, family, friends) in the absence of God? The point here is that some things are not driven by a purely logical calculus, though there be still good reasons to do them. Morality, I believe, emerges from our capacity for empathy and the benefits of cooperation. Would you love your (spouse, children, family, friends) still if it was proved to you there was no God? Of course you would. Now, why, logically, should you love your (spouse, children, family, friends) in the absence of God?

The point here is that some things are not driven by a purely logical calculus, though there be still good reasons to do them. Morality, I believe, emerges from our capacity for empathy and the benefits of cooperation.

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