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Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?
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Sorry, the absence of god isn't a hole. It means being a moral person for rational reasons and not because some author of a fairy tale, who also say things like "it's cool to kill some people", said so. Even if it 'was a hole', filling it with proper education is far superior in all respects.
Edit: and this is the first time I've seen someone argue that following a religion is NOT the intellectually lazy thing to do. Amazing.
It's kind of wild... But I used to watch atheist call in shows, and you'd be shocked about some of the things these people try to argue.
I used to watch AXP and still watch Matt Dillahunty every now and then. It really is wild how shocked and offended most of the callers get when they actually face resistance and are told to back up their beliefs with evidence. None ever can.
The worst is when they'd get someone literally defending slavery, every now and then.
You can't science/big brain yourself into morals, you either believe in it or not (again, check Hume's fork and the is-ought problem, the wise men in your tribe already talked about this!). And it's not about believing in tales, but finding yourself in/agreeing the words of the prophets (like their moral lessons) enough that you start considering the background ideology of what they're saying and then one day you're a well-read God fearing man.