The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what's to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn't have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don't want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don't want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you. --Penn Jillette

Think of the man what you will, but this has to be the best answer for that dumb question.

This person allowed Elon Musk to stick his Nazi cock inside her.

She's not a sane individual.

I can't remember who said it but: If you being a good person depends on the fear of eternal damnation, then you are not a good person.

I now see why she was stupid enough to get with elmo.

There are plenty examples of religious leaders raping and killing children and other offenses. But I guess they are above it all then?

The same god who allows rape and murder as long as you believe in him

Saying "Without laws I wouldn't do right from wrong" is also just as much a sociopathic self report imo. Same with "money" and "The State", i'm an atheist just like them except I go one or two gods further.

"Your religion isn't the same as morality." - Britta Perry

also, when has religion saying raping and killing children was wrong ever stopped a religious 'person' from raping and killing children? those are like their two favorite things to do.

If we can kill God, then it wasn't God that we killed...

I think zealot answered that. It seems that people who can't manage themselves and their worst impulse want to manage others.

manic nazi dream girl

The way i understood it was that it's a difference in organization of society. Some people can find meaning themselves, without needing somebody else to tell them what to do. Some people just need to be told what to do.

I haven't be taught religion, but i'm lucky enoigh to have had parents...

If you need somebody watching over your shoulder + the threat of damnation to be a good person, you're not a good person.

Our society killed God and replaced with Reason. For all the things this improved, it created another set of problems nearly everyone in the West is unaware of. Check out Voltaire's Bastards.

There was just a case where a woman gave birth to a baby in the woods, left it there and left for a vacation. If it weren't for the family dog desperately trying to save the baby and getting noticed by a stranger, nobody would have ever known as even the rest of the family was defensive of the woman.

This shows morality is not only not an exclusively trait but not even an exclusively human trait.

If fear of divine retribution is your only reason for being a good person, then you are not a good person.

Someone that fucked Elon should really keep ideas about morality out of their fucking mouth

Stop being pious atheists

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Emphasis my own. Yes there is a self evident morality, you don't need God to tell you what's right and wrong.

I think her argument was that religion offered an easy way to make moral choices.