Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
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From : Zoran Brlecic
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 16:15:43

From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf

Matt Osborn wrote:

> If you can present a cogent argument for ethics and morality that
> requires absolutely no assumptions, then you could make a case for
> atheism.

This is false dichotomy. Also, as I said before, atheism is simply 
non-belief in gods. It does not prescribe any morals, ethics or behavior.
Furthermore, if you claim that our morals are based on your scriptures, 
and if I then go through that "holy" book and find a contradictory 
example then it should be obvious that your argument falls apart.
So if your Bible explicitly condones rape and slavery, how do you 
reconcile this with your religion-derived morals, other than through 
cognitive dissonance?

According to you, all atheists should be immoral by definition. It 
follows that prisons should be overflowing with them. Yet, strangely 
enough, in American prisons, Christians are over-represented, while 
atheists (along with Jews and Muslims) are under-represented.

Hmm, do I smell a true Scotsman fallacy coming up?


73 .... WA7AA

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