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Ok, I'm finally breaking my new year's resolution about arguing religion on a design forum, but...
There's no point in ethics if you're an athieist?!?!?
I can argue that morality driven by threat of punishment (i.e., hell) is not ethics but guilt. "I don't want to go to hell, so I'm not going to kill anyone". You're motivation in this case is not the morality of the action, it's the punishment you'll face. I'd like to think I'm not killing anyone because it's WRONG. And how do I know it's wrong without God having told me so? Because I have a fundamental sense of right and wrong driven by my own sense of ethics and measured against that.
If a belief in God is required to be ethical, why aren't all believers "good" and all disbelievers "bad"?
Of course, many religions believe you're automatically "bad" just for not believing in a specific dogma. But, ah well, that just makes it easier to kill someone who doesn't believe in what you do.
I'd rather get along with my fellow man than kill him.