Atheism, evolution and blah II

I've received my first hate-comment today. Yay for me.^^

Anyway, here we go again.

Morality: a favorite of theists around the world, that like to argument that morality derives from god and so, atheists must either be hedonists or nihilists. They are, of course, quite wrong. Using the bible as a moral guide is like using "Mein Kampf" for information about Jews. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but you get my point. The bible in and of itself is entirely outdated(the youngest parts are after all, I believe, 1,800 years old) when it comes to morality, and anyone who reads it non-selectively, not how it is read in church but from front-to-back(not that I have done this, the bible is not exactly a fun read^^), will find plenty of passages that are highly dubious when it comes to morality. Of course, many rules still apply to today's society, but by far not all of them. But still, this does not explain where atheists get their morality from. So, here it is, the magic word: Memetics.

Memetics is the same thing as genetics just for social behavior. Let us imagine two societies, one with ethics and one without. Which is more likely to survive? Obviously, if everyone works together, the society has a much better chance of survival than if everyone steals and tries to kill everyone else. We basically have ethics because it makes sense. And isn't that what atheism is all about? Not only that, we should have better ethics because we don't use religious dogma, we use what makes sense

So what about Pascal's Wager? What if we're wrong? Well, first of all, quite simply, we're not. That easy. Second, what if you're wrong? You've wasted your one and only life praying to a false God. If you pray for five minutes every day and go to church every Sunday for 2 hours for seventy years, you waste more than a year of your life, and what if you're praying to the wrong god and the real god throws you into hell for exactly this reason? Who won then? I got a year more out of life than you did, yet we both end up the same. And third, why would I even want to worship God?

1. Anyone who creates a whole universe for his sheer pleasure is obviously megalomanic.
2. He is incredibly cruel and sadistic. He knows how we will react and when we will sin, for he is omniscient, yet he puts us through this elaborate test called life to determine if we go to heaven and hell.
3. He is incredibly cruel and sadistic because of the sheer existence of hell. Modern countries have at max death penalty and often only lifelong imprisonment as maximum punishment, but God gives us eternal torture.
4. Belief in God discredits free choice. If God knows everything, past, present and future, and this is only possible if the future is predetermined.

So, those were my thoughts on atheism for today, maybe more tomorrow, or maybe some other day, if I can come up with enough to warrant a post, or maybe something different entirely
Good bye,
James Blood.