Post here if you think atheists can't be good people

[pancreasman]

I've put all the stupid and reprehensible atheists on ignore, so technically all the atheists whom I see on TWeb are intelligent and respectable. :

What? I can't read what you're saying since I ignored you.

[Catholicity]

I can't post here.....It goes against the OP...I have too many friends that Are Atheists that are good people

[Cow Poke]

I can't post here.....It goes against the OP...I have too many friends that Are Atheists that are good people

Yeah, I ain't postin here neither!

[pancreasman]

Yeah, I ain't postin here neither!

Not only am I not posting here, I'm not reading this thread.

[Cow Poke]

Not only am I not posting here, I'm not reading this thread.

Too bad I won't ever know you wrote that.

[Soyeong]

Too bad I won't ever know you wrote that.

And none of you will know that I mentioned tofu in this thread, which is good because that would have been off topic.

[fm93]

bacon

[Cow Poke]

bacon

Hitler

[fm93]

chicken

[Cow Poke]

Amen!

[ZackMartin]

Hi

Goodness comes in degrees. There is perfect goodness; then there is your everyday goodness, which doesn't claim to reach the same heights. When people say about someone, "He's a good person", they aren't saying he's a saint, or that he's sinless, or that he's never done a wrong thing in his life. They are simply saying that he is above-average in the goodness stakes, more good than not, etc. When you say someone is a good person, you don't mean that their hearts are pure and absolutely devoid of any evil, however slight; you are simply saying that the good in them outweighs the evil overall; you aren't saying that evil is completely absent.

But when Christians quote "No one is good but God alone", "There is no one who is righteous, not one", etc., they mean "good" in the sense of perfectly good, being of the maximum possible degree of goodness, completely devoid of any evil, no matter how minor, etc.

So of course many atheists are good people in the everyday sense. And I don't think any atheist would claim to be good in the maximal sense in which the word is used in Christian theology.

Regards, Zack

[pancreasman]

Hi

Goodness comes in degrees. There is perfect goodness; then there is your everyday goodness, which doesn't claim to reach the same heights. When people say about someone, "He's a good person", they aren't saying he's a saint, or that he's sinless, or that he's never done a wrong thing in his life. They are simply saying that he is above-average in the goodness stakes, more good than not, etc. When you say someone is a good person, you don't mean that their hearts are pure and absolutely devoid of any evil, however slight; you are simply saying that the good in them outweighs the evil overall; you aren't saying that evil is completely absent.

But when Christians quote "No one is good but God alone", "There is no one who is righteous, not one", etc., they mean "good" in the sense of perfectly good, being of the maximum possible degree of goodness, completely devoid of any evil, no matter how minor, etc.

So of course many atheists are good people in the everyday sense. And I don't think any atheist would claim to be good in the maximal sense in which the word is used in Christian theology.

Regards, Zack

Zack, did you not get the memo? This thread has degenerated into absurdism.

[ZackMartin]

Zack, did you not get the memo? This thread has degenerated into absurdism.

Oh, I received the memo, I just chose to ignore it :)

[Jedidiah]

I was an atheist, but I got better.

[pancreasman]

I was an atheist, but I got better.

That's funny, I was a Christian, but I got kinder.