| SlayerRondo said: Come on really? You are taking what he said to an absurd extreme. |
No, I am trying to practically apply what Hitchens said to a reality, asking exactly what good or evil people, do. One can argue that a person, in a religious community, is capable of doing good they wouldn't be alone, because they have encouragement and moral support, to help make right decisions, that they would lack without having. Person comes under the influence of others and lives a life where they give up things, or start doing things. Atheism doesn't produce such communities. What you get under atheism is pretty much government programs that do things. You don't see atheists really doing what Mother Teressa did. You will actually end you have Penn Gilletes of the world end up saying stuff like science and free markets do more good than Mother Teressa did.
No, I am looking at a practical reality, unless one wants ethics to be nothing more than just some sort of impractical scoreboard we use to feel good that we feel bad, and remind us we are not barbarians and savages.
So again here, if Hitchens is correct in that, there is NO act anyone needs any God for to do, that is right, then exactly why do people fall short?
