Doe it really matter if God exists or not...?

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Nem said:

But it does matter. Religious people here, now, alive are forcing views on others based on fantasy books. Racism, sexism, genocide, war, slavery... everything goes according to these madness books.

If people would realize that it is obviously not real, at least in the form that their books describe, the world would be a much more peaceful place.

Birimbau said:

If God doesn't exist, there is no wrong or right. If God exists, there is wrong (what God diskes) and right (what God approves) and there are consequences for both.

Seriously... all you religious types don't even know what empathy is.

Also, It's wrong. There are things that aren't good that God aproves. For example, beating your wife, or slavery. You gonna tell me those things are "right"?

 

I would still like to know why Atheists don't go around killing your asses if that were true.Surely we don't care what God thinks. Cause i'm sure there would be even a few willing to piss on the law or do it in secret.

The answer is simple: you are trying to give credit to "God" for something he didn't do.

God did not decide what is right and wrong. Your empathy does. Empathy is a function that increases your surivability. Makes you cooperate with others and not do to them what you wouldn't like them to do to you, increasing your survivability chances.

That is all there is to it. 

Stop trying to credit some inexistant beeing for something that is just part of evolution, just like everything else in us.

You also know that there are some people that are born without that capability. They can't feel empathy. They are usually troubled individuals (some also mass murderers). If this is on God, WHY would he make such individuals? That would be outright sadistic!

 

and empathy is not a constant across people... so where does that leave you?