Is a Divine Edict Required to Keep Theists Sane? - Hitchens

If God were were proven to not exist, would you immediately begin behaving like a murderous, sexually deviant and thieving sociopath?

If you answer yes, then I never want to meet you in person and I hope that you are ostracized by everyone you know - for their own good.

If you say no, then you are admitting that there is some non-theistic basis to your moral decisions.

Take your choice
VoodooVsays...

the problem is, certain people will never honestly contemplate that question. Their faith *is* their fact. They don't _believe_ a god exists, they think they _know_ a god exists.

If you actually did have faith, by definition of the word faith, you acknowledge that you have no evidence, but you believe it anyway. Faith, in my opinion is actually more honest because faith implies that you acknowledge that you don't know.

Someone who actually admits that they don't know would be capable of honestly evaluating the question of "if god didn't exist"

The people that _know_ a god exists. I believe we have a word for that already....sociopaths.

A10anissays...

You are greatly missed Christopher. Dawkins. Dennett and Harris are doing a good job. But the master was/is Hitchens. Can't add anything to the accolades paid to the great man, except to say, faith based apologists are happy that they can no longer be torn apart by him in debate.

siftbotsays...

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