Morality in a godless universe

[andrewducker]

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[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

So you're saying that without the perception of a God, people aren't moral? Or you're saying that if God took a vacation, the world would be screwed?

The comic seems based on a flawed assumption of the way people who believe in God think. So it came off to me as neither funny nor accurate.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but in prescriptive religious systems like the middle eastern monotheist faiths, the threat of punishment for improper behavior is ever-present. Remove that threat and the dynamics of the religion change, which might also change believer's morality.

I believe in gods (or more accurately, I've met a few so I accept their existence) but see do not see them as being involved in an unending cycle of judgment, retribution, and forgiveness.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

do not see them as being involved in an unending cycle of judgment, retribution, and forgiveness

Neither do I. I think that these are concepts that humans apply to themselves.