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When atheists disagree about the Objectivity of Morality ... !
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<blockquote data-quote="2PhiloVoid" data-source="post: 74962338" data-attributes="member: 167101"><p>Oh, I think your personal experience definitely counts for something here. I've experienced similar situations, particularly with Millennials, but also within my own Gen X crowd. Some of this oscillation might be due to the fact that many younger atheists are 'ex-Christians' who have been inculcated from two sides in their lives: one through their Church, and the other civically by way of various versions of 'rights' political philosophy.</p><p></p><p> Yeah, there is something to what you're saying here. A number of them seem to want their have their moral cake and eat it too, with their choice of frosting. As a Christian, I often have to admit that while I'd also like to have cake, I often just get to look at it without all of the ingesting and digesting; moreover, I didn't even know there were so many different colors of moral frosting one could ask for.</p><p></p><p> That could be. Then too, it could be this and an also instance where they got tired of being asked why they're not 'being moral' all the while objectively noticing that some folks among us Christians have been doing some less than morally savory things. .......... <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/doh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":doh:" title="doh :doh:" data-shortname=":doh:" />..... I think somehow the idea of 'moral objectivity' has come to mean that if morality is real and substantive, there should also be some kind of consistent follow through with it. I often wonder, where did these young atheists ever get that idea?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2PhiloVoid, post: 74962338, member: 167101"] Oh, I think your personal experience definitely counts for something here. I've experienced similar situations, particularly with Millennials, but also within my own Gen X crowd. Some of this oscillation might be due to the fact that many younger atheists are 'ex-Christians' who have been inculcated from two sides in their lives: one through their Church, and the other civically by way of various versions of 'rights' political philosophy. Yeah, there is something to what you're saying here. A number of them seem to want their have their moral cake and eat it too, with their choice of frosting. As a Christian, I often have to admit that while I'd also like to have cake, I often just get to look at it without all of the ingesting and digesting; moreover, I didn't even know there were so many different colors of moral frosting one could ask for. That could be. Then too, it could be this and an also instance where they got tired of being asked why they're not 'being moral' all the while objectively noticing that some folks among us Christians have been doing some less than morally savory things. .......... :doh:..... I think somehow the idea of 'moral objectivity' has come to mean that if morality is real and substantive, there should also be some kind of consistent follow through with it. I often wonder, where did these young atheists ever get that idea? [/QUOTE]
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