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How can atheists JUSTIFY following the rules while playing Monopoly?

Surely, if there's no God to punish cheaters, everyone will try to do whatever they want. They'll get out of jail without paying the fine or rolling doubles first. People will travel around the board counter-clockwise. They'll try to build hotels on "Free Parking." They'll try to play Monopoly using the board for LIFE.

If we all just crawled out of primordial ooze, why bother following the rules? Clearly, without a God, there's no point to playing Monopoly at all.

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  • Ray J
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    Don't worry. God passed on His powers to The BANKER.

  • 7 years ago

    Why does everything revolve around religion in a believers eyes? It's a game. It has nothing to do with religion. People follow rules because of societal norms. Not god.

  • 7 years ago

    If you don't follow the rules people will not play with you, will shun you and you won't ever finish a game. Much like reality.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    How do you justify objective morals when we have free will? Sure god may have dictated it, but free will allows us not to follow it right? And judging from what the bible says, there's a lot of his morals that we don't follow.

    So even with your argument you can't say there's objective morality.

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  • 7 years ago

    I can think of at least a half-dozen reasons not to cheat without invoking a vengeful God.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    We humans are intelligent enough to know if we are affecting others and ourselves by cheating at the game of life. We don't need to be punished for we experience the consequences of our actions and feel bad about them, which is punishment enough, thank you.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Monopoly is for nerds.

  • a
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    I actually like this comparison a lot.

  • 7 years ago

    But atheists will insist that they don't work that way.

    But if it is the Bible, they will perceive it as a competition/threat, and will actually work against it.

  • 7 years ago

    How do Christians justify the immoral things in their bible? Oh yeah, they cherry pick their beliefs.

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