Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

?
Lv 6

Theists, do you understand what Morality even is?

Its really simple...

Good and bad are concepts that exist in sentient minds, an experience will always sit somewhere along the line range of good-bad.

Morality is a concept dealing with good and bad, it is a description of an actions effects on sentient beings, if an action causes more overall good experience then bad, then its moral. etc

its all very very simple and obvious, God simply does not come into it at all.

Update:

wow.. ok so clearly i have to spell this out very very simply for some people...

No, this is NOT based on opinion. nothing im talking about has anything to do with what any one person considers to be good or bad.. ive got no idea where you guys are getting that absurd notion.

10 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No they don't.

    You're totally confused

    I thot you saw the news.

  • Jim V
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    And what happens when your concept of "good and bad" conflicts with someone else's?

    Are the morals of a drug dealer or cartel member in alignment with your good and bad?

    Are the morals of a pastor in alignment with your good and bad?

    Based on your own criteria all you are saying is that one person's good and bad are just as "right" as yours.

    IOW, you get to define what good and bad is.

  • Ashton
    Lv 5
    4 years ago

    They don't like to think critically about anything, they just want to follow what requires the least amount of thinking... an ancient holy book.

  • 4 years ago

    of course we understand. your wrong god established what is evil to do and what is good to do.

    by your flawed reasoning hilter was moral because they thought it was good to kill all jews

    your the one lacking common sense

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • RoSH
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Can you wright the best selling book of ALL time?

    If you can explain ALL that is bad and ALL that is good please knock yourself out.

    Remember ALL subsequence consequences of your toughs on the subject must be accounted for in the text.

    To do that you MUST know ALL things, Be ALL places at once and BE ALL powerful All the time; all of this from the beginning of time.

    Good luck with that .

    Have a nice day.

  • 4 years ago

    I don't believe in God, but morality cannot be simplified to utilitarianism either.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Of course they don't. These people are fed stories about an all powerful dictator who blows up cities, murders families on a bet, drowns planets for fun, and has an apparent penchant for murdering children, they read these stories, or hear them, and then turn around and say "Oh wow, god is so loving because he COULD wipe us out in an instant, but he doesn't!" It's like being thankful that your abusive boyfriend doesn't kill you, but just keeps punching your face daily. Meanwhile, sane people are on the sidelines like "There are less painful men out there who aren't douchebags! Just go be with one of them!" But no, they won't. They like the abuse for some twisted reason. Probably because they've been subjected to it since they were four.

    Ask any moral person what they would think of a father subjecting his own son to torture for the crimes of others, and they'll tell you the father is blatantly screwed in the head. But add in magic fruit, talking donkeys, and a few miracles stolen from other religions and suddenly it becomes the most moral thing ever.

    Christianity is seriously weird. And I didn't even go into the pretend cannibalism.

  • 4 years ago

    Leave theists alone...!

    Attachment image
  • 4 years ago

    Yes. There is no need for any of this condescending rant.

  • There is no good and bad in atheism, only what is expedient or a bummer.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.