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This always seems to come up in discussions with Christians: What motivation do you have to be ethical if you’re an atheist? They never seem to realise that having a god telling you what to do doesn’t make you moral, especially not with that terrible Bible.
I got a nuanced response from this Christian — then his brain stopped. What a shame.
Slaves should be obedient to their masters.
Rape a girl, pay her father, and she’s your wife!
God used to like killing gay people.
(Conversation reported verbatim until the last panel, but yeah, that’s how it went.)
The further adventures of me, talking to members of Christian clubs on campus.
This happened pretty much verbatim, until the part where I talk to them together. From there I made it up.
It was Orientation Day on campus. People can sign up for clubs (including the UWA Atheist and Skeptic Society), and there are always tons of church groups doing their schtick. So I like to see what’s out there.
Here’s a conversation I had. It went pretty much just like this.
I like to find out stuff by listening to people who know more than I do. And when they’re stuck in a line with me, this is what happens.
Some Jehovah’s Witnesses came around this morning. I decided to go all Socratic on them, and just ask them questions. It didn’t last very long.
The UWA Atheist & Skeptic Society had a bake sale today. The cost of the baked goods: your soul.
We wanted to spark some discussion about souls; what it means to people, why we think we have one, and why people are so attached to the dubious notion that there’s a little ghost inside us making all our decisions. What I wasn’t prepared for was the reactions. Even though we were clearly ‘taking the piss’, many people showed a strange reticence. It looks like ‘selling your soul’ is a cultural taboo.
But we did give out lots of cookies.
Follow on to Atheist Bake Sale 2.
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