Charles Darwin was not only racist, but influenced Eugenics in Nazi Germany through his writings! Worldview influences morality. The atheistic
worldview isn't only bankrupt internally, but according to the conscience God has placed in each of us - evil!
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Today, there are people who support Eugenics, and justify it from an atheistic world view. If you think about it carefully - if all we are is purposeless chemical accidents (unguided accidents) - human value, and the value of a head of lettuce are equal. Value doesn't actually exist. It's just relatively imposed.
But if God is true, and if we are made in his image - then we do have intrinsic value, purpose and worth, and Eugenics is evil.
I realise there are HEAPS of atheists that reject Eugenics and hate it - but I don't see how that's coherent from a philosophical perspective.
Atheism necessitates objective worthlessness. Relative value can be ascribed; but its all relative. Objective value doesnt exist. Objective purpose doesn't exist.
This is what leads to racism and eugenics.
No doubt deviations from Christianity lead to all kinds of atrocities too - misrepresentations of Jesus teachings.
Hitler did that - and the Catholic church did too. But you never judge a world view or a religion by its misrepresentation.
Atheism represented accurately necessitates objective worthlessness. Purpose doesn't exist.
In other words, there is no different between a human being and a head of lettuce if atheism is true.
The word purpose means; 'the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.'
In order to have reason, you have to have a mind. The word reason means; 'to think, understand, and form judgments logically. An explanation, or justification about something.'
If humanity has a purpose - it must come from a mind that gave humanity that purpose. An intelligent designer.
If there is no designer - there is no purpose.
We can ascribe relative, subjective purpose to ourselves - but it's ultimately meaningless. It's not a real purpose - it's a purpose that we made up for ourselves. Anyone can create a new purpose that is just as valid.
To whom does the survival of our species matter? If our species goes extinct, no one will be there to care. It's meaningless.
I know why it matters in the biblical world view. But if we are cosmic chemical accidents it's all meaningless.
Relative purpose does exist. The logical consequences of relative purpose is that one person can't say their purpose is any better than anyone else - because it's all relative.
If one person believes the purpose for humanity is to destroy the spec of dust we call earth with nuclear weapons - and another wants to preserve it - there is no objective purpose that governs which one is right.
Someone might say - well whatever helps the most people, but that's just an opinion.
We live our lives with purpose and morals as though objective purpose and morality exist - those things only make sense in a theistic world view.
An atheist can have morals, but an atheist can't justify objective morals. Only relative morals. Which can't be lived out consistently.
Atheism can't justify an objective standard of morality. It's philosophically incoherent. Right and wrong are relative, it's just an opinion.
I believe God has given us all a conscience, so whether we believe in God or not, we all have a moral compass - but when it comes to internal consistency - Christianity can justify an objective moral standard (the designer established the laws for his system), but atheism can't (we are cosmic chemical accidents, highly evolved primordial soup, our brains fizz with chemicals, and our decisions and thoughts are a result of unguided accidents).
Usually things that are designed - are designed for a reason. But it's always the case that if something has purpose - it has someone who attributed that purpose to it.
Our morality doesn't come from a book. God wrote his law on our hearts. Before Moses wrote Genesis - we knew right from wrong - our morality isn't based from a book. But it is given to us by God.
The laws about stoning were national laws for Israel. You have to group the laws of the Old Testament and understand them in the right context. Moral laws, National laws, Ceremonial laws - they're all different and are treated differently. Than covenant comes into the equation too.
Yeah if someone didn't care about hell - they could live a horrible life. But my point was all about justifying morality coherently. If someone isn't logically compatible - there is a problem with that world view.
worldview isn't only bankrupt internally, but according to the conscience God has placed in each of us - evil!
[video=youtube;ctV1VkyG15I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctV1VkyG15I[/video]
Today, there are people who support Eugenics, and justify it from an atheistic world view. If you think about it carefully - if all we are is purposeless chemical accidents (unguided accidents) - human value, and the value of a head of lettuce are equal. Value doesn't actually exist. It's just relatively imposed.
But if God is true, and if we are made in his image - then we do have intrinsic value, purpose and worth, and Eugenics is evil.
I realise there are HEAPS of atheists that reject Eugenics and hate it - but I don't see how that's coherent from a philosophical perspective.
Atheism necessitates objective worthlessness. Relative value can be ascribed; but its all relative. Objective value doesnt exist. Objective purpose doesn't exist.
This is what leads to racism and eugenics.
No doubt deviations from Christianity lead to all kinds of atrocities too - misrepresentations of Jesus teachings.
Hitler did that - and the Catholic church did too. But you never judge a world view or a religion by its misrepresentation.
Atheism represented accurately necessitates objective worthlessness. Purpose doesn't exist.
In other words, there is no different between a human being and a head of lettuce if atheism is true.
The word purpose means; 'the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.'
In order to have reason, you have to have a mind. The word reason means; 'to think, understand, and form judgments logically. An explanation, or justification about something.'
If humanity has a purpose - it must come from a mind that gave humanity that purpose. An intelligent designer.
If there is no designer - there is no purpose.
We can ascribe relative, subjective purpose to ourselves - but it's ultimately meaningless. It's not a real purpose - it's a purpose that we made up for ourselves. Anyone can create a new purpose that is just as valid.
To whom does the survival of our species matter? If our species goes extinct, no one will be there to care. It's meaningless.
I know why it matters in the biblical world view. But if we are cosmic chemical accidents it's all meaningless.
Relative purpose does exist. The logical consequences of relative purpose is that one person can't say their purpose is any better than anyone else - because it's all relative.
If one person believes the purpose for humanity is to destroy the spec of dust we call earth with nuclear weapons - and another wants to preserve it - there is no objective purpose that governs which one is right.
Someone might say - well whatever helps the most people, but that's just an opinion.
We live our lives with purpose and morals as though objective purpose and morality exist - those things only make sense in a theistic world view.
An atheist can have morals, but an atheist can't justify objective morals. Only relative morals. Which can't be lived out consistently.
Atheism can't justify an objective standard of morality. It's philosophically incoherent. Right and wrong are relative, it's just an opinion.
I believe God has given us all a conscience, so whether we believe in God or not, we all have a moral compass - but when it comes to internal consistency - Christianity can justify an objective moral standard (the designer established the laws for his system), but atheism can't (we are cosmic chemical accidents, highly evolved primordial soup, our brains fizz with chemicals, and our decisions and thoughts are a result of unguided accidents).
Usually things that are designed - are designed for a reason. But it's always the case that if something has purpose - it has someone who attributed that purpose to it.
Our morality doesn't come from a book. God wrote his law on our hearts. Before Moses wrote Genesis - we knew right from wrong - our morality isn't based from a book. But it is given to us by God.
The laws about stoning were national laws for Israel. You have to group the laws of the Old Testament and understand them in the right context. Moral laws, National laws, Ceremonial laws - they're all different and are treated differently. Than covenant comes into the equation too.
Yeah if someone didn't care about hell - they could live a horrible life. But my point was all about justifying morality coherently. If someone isn't logically compatible - there is a problem with that world view.
