| richardhutnik said: Initial statement: Hitchen's challenge: Show a single moral act that can be performed by a religious person that can't be by an atheist. Premise: If Hitchen would be correct, then that means that all moral acts are performable by all human beings, irregardless of their beliefs. Question from the premise: If this premise is true, then is there any example of ANYONE who is totally and completely moral in nature and didn't "sin" at any time in their life alive now? |
He doesn't say people are capable of doing all moral acts. He says atheists are capable of doing the same moral acts as religious people. There's a difference.
And even if he did say atheists were capable of doing all moral acts, your point would still be flawed. Just because a person is capable of doing any particular moral act, that does not mean they are capable of always doing perfectly moral acts with no chance of error.
The tendency for humans to make mistakes would prevent any human from doing a certain act forever; that doesn't mean they aren't capable of doing that act.
The question you're asking is the same as asking "If humans are capable of single-digit addition regardless of religious belief, then why has no human ever lived a life without making a single-digit addition error?"
