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Do you find it offensive when theist think without a belief in god/gods, it’s impossible to have morality?

EmeraldJewel 7 May 30
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I don't find it offensive. It's wrong and silly, but it's just how they think.

I do my best to be good and the opinions of people who believe in religion are the very least of my worries.

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Mostly I amazed that people can be that stupid.

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I guess I do not get offended that easily.

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First of all, I wish that my Language help me to tell you what i think about this in the simplest and shortest way i could.

For me ( Morals ) always inside us it's in our DNA and it's a common mistakes when we think that morals come out of Religion or Beliefs.

There is a lot of People without any sort of God or Belief and have morals ( Japanese, Chinese too and Hindus also and many other ancient and modern examples in human history.

Bible Told everyone the Horrible things that (Gods Prophet) over ages did, and on the modern history we all know the horribles
it happened inside church or with the name of god or religion So, According to your Question Logic.

Did you Think that those people do or doesn't have Morals....?!

The Thing Is When it comes to ( Morality ) We all be the same, Since Day one we able to Distinguish
what Right from Wrong, What's Good from Bad. We all get Effected by our Society, Education, Social and Economical level
and a lot of other issues that effect the way you see morals. For Example,
What I will find it very moral in Egypt you might find it immoral in US and so on....

Religion didn't found moral out of nowhere it was exists and known in older and ancient civilization before
So, he just took it or rephrase it in different way.

And now Since the Majority of people has religion or they pretend to have one. So you think he has the main role on this,
But you aren't quite accurate cuz we start to be more morals after we put religion and gods away from our life.

Look to the History of Middle Ages, Do we look morals to you..... ?!

Look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948

What do you Think Right Now ........ Does God or beliefs told us to do so.

Ask your self and am sure
you will be able to find the right answer.

Miloo Level 6 May 30, 2018
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It's quite sad that people believe that they need to believe in something to have morals when it should be a natural instinct to "DO" the right thing. But theres a reason why common sense ain't that common

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Offensive? No. Ignorant? Oh hell yes.

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I sure do! I guess they only behave right so they won't go to hell & will go to heaven. We do it for no reward....

Carin Level 8 May 30, 2018
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No, I just look at them as uneducated.

When they see an agnostic/atheist like me doing good deeds because I want to, and I don't give two shits about pleasing some God, hopefully the cognitive dissonance will spur them to question a bit more.

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Not at all, others will always think differently to us ?

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I don't care what they think. I know that I have a strong moral code -- and that is all that matters.

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Not really, I don’t value their opinions and I see a lack of morality from them, also. I don’t care what they think.

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What I find offensive is that they need an invisible, aloof, deity to tell them what should be common sense. Really, you need a god to remind you to be a decent human?

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No, I don't believe being offended is a means by which anything changes or gets accomplished. When one gets offended the conversation stops. I find it laughable when they are pressed on the subject. "Do you believe christians are the only ones with morals? When they answer yes. I follow up with "Then you believe that 5 billion people live non-morally?" At least it hopefully gets them thinking.

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Yes

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I must live in a bubble because no one spouts to me about their religion and yes, I do have Catholic, protestant, Jewish friends. If someone outside my group or people I don't know are ranting on Facebook or editorials about how Christians are the only people with morals, I ignore them. I am not going to waste my time dealing with their illogic logic. Why try to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. At this stage of my life I pick my battles wisely.

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Actually I feel sorry for those that believe they have to have a god to have good morals! Being a good person has nothing to do with some made up mystic being! A lot of bible thumping church goers are the most immoral people on earth.

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I find it far more stupid than offensive. Just another of their delusional assumptions.

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Offensive? No. I think it’s not thought out at best and intellectually dishonest at worst, but not offensive. We see foundational moral structures in pack animals, and tribes that predate known religion had moral systems without scripture to guide them. If anything, religion holds morality back. Morality is fluid. We are supposed to be constantly improving. Religion with strict dogma forces it’s participants to hang on to outdated mores because it’s recorded in a book. So no, it’s not offensive. It’s sad.

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If someone is telling me that they think I'm amoral then that is an objectively offensive thing to say. However lets put it in context. I do try to not take offense at the delusional ramblings of the mentally ill.

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Offensive, no. Uninformed, yes.

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What I find offensive is when they say that I must have learned morals when I was still a Christian. It's like, even now that I'm an atheist I still am brainwashed and secretly wishing that I was still a believer.

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I don't think they realize how arrogant and impertinent such a contention is, so I don't take it personally. However, it IS tiresome because it's so drilled into them, and the flip side is that they really believe that they would become depraved without their imagined godly morality. That's, after all, why they think atheists would be depraved, licentious, etc. At least there's a certain internal consistency to that notion.

It usually takes them by surprise if you force them to apply the notion to themselves by saying that it's too bad that they think themselves so evil that they believe themselves barely restrained from pillaging and raping but for their god holding them back from what they really want to do.

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I wouldn't say it's offensive, but it is certainly annoying for its innate stupidity, and it doesn't encourage intelligent politics when people think these things and find other excuses to pander to religion. However, theists have an exceedingly large amount of people without the faintest clue on how to disseminate a true belief versus a false one, so I am not surprised they think these things.

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To a small degree I feel offended.
Mostly I feel a great disappointment in their close mindedness.

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