Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Atheist's and the Golden Rule!

Atheists assume that it is easy to see what ‘goodness’ is and so they think there is no reasons on earth why we need God to know it. For them goodness is based on the Golden rule “Do on to others what you would like done to your self’. It may be one thing to say it’s easy to see the statement is true, but it is another to state that our actions are in fact good. The History of Atheism shows that they have struggled to see what Goodness is as they are accountable for most of the mass killings and genocide’s in the world. Atheism has killed more people than Religion. Also if it is so easy to see what is the good, why is it taking so long for the human race to live it out. It seems strange that Jesus didn’t spend years debating with the philosophers of his age what was good and useful for mankind. No he just spoke the perfect ethics into being from the Fathers heart and Character.

I’m afraid Atheists that it is not that easy to just try and pinch Christianity's objective perfect morality and throw away God.

Vox Day makes a good point in his book “The Irrational Atheist”

“It is often asserted that Christian morality is no different than other ethical systems that are based on the Golden rule. And it is true that one can find pre-Christian examples of the same concepts in the Analects of Confucius, in the Mahabharata, the Dhammapada, the Udanavarga, and even in the histories of Herodotus.”

But the problem with this attack, that all people can see what the good is , and that it is not based on Christian morality is that Christianity’s morality is not just based on the Golden rule, which states that man should not do to others what he would not have them do to him. It is based on doing the Fathers perfect (God’s) will. But just stating the above cannot provide us with a functional moral system.
Obviously a moral system based on loving the Lord your God and obediently submitting your will to his is a very different moral system and far more objective one than the Golden rule, which is not only entirely subjective, but incapable of accounting for either rational calculation or human psychopathy. It provides no moral basis to criticize a man for crawling into Adriana’s bed unannounced so long as he harbors no desire to bar her from doing the same to him, and sanctions a thief to steal on the grounds of a belief that he wouldn’t miss that which was stolen were the thief himself the prospective victim. The Golden rule is also to easily transformed into the idea of doing unto others as you believe they wish to do unto you.

The problem still is, What is “Right”? what is “Good”. As Cleeray says, there is no ontological nature of goodness, it just is what we think other people wouldn’t mind. It just seems strange that Jesus’ ethics do not injure any one but promotes complete peace and atheist's are still trying to iron out the few mistakes in there concepts so that we can all get along. It just seems that millions have to be murdered first to get the system working.