From: "Gary Britt" 

Believers are not irrational or illogical in thinking the voices in their
head can mean something, because they can believe those voices come from
God and not just merely chemical reactions in their brains and glitches in
their programming.  Note that this is true whether or not God really exists
or not.

Atheists on the other hand say there is no god and therefore voices in
their heads can only be chemicals and impulses.  It is simply not rational
for an Atheist to think these voices have any meaning worthy of anything
more than divining morality from mixing cow liver with euphoric acid and
hooking it up to a 9 volt.

We are discussing the rationality and logic of following or believing in
that inner conscience.  Believers have a rational basis for so doing (God's
existence in fact is irrelevant to this), but atheists have no rational
basis for believing in an inner conscience because to an atheist inner
conscience would be nothing more mystical than passing some methane after a
good meal.

Cheers,

Gary


"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40034104.8868241{at}216.144.1.254...
> If it's not "voices in your head" that tells you what you
believe about
> God and morality, what is it?
>
> My morality comes from chemicals/signals/software in my head. If you
> believe in a certain religion, you formed your belief using exactly the
> same apparatus that I used to form my morality.
>
> John
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news::
> > If both were as you described than both would be equally irrational.
There
> > is no more basis for following the voices in your head created by the
> > interaction of various chemicals in your brain and nothing more than
> > anything else.  Since atheists don't believe in god the only basis for
those
> > voices in your head would be electrical signals, software programming,
> > chemical reactions in your brain, etc.  Allowing the mixing together of
> > chemicals in your brain or the emission of electrical impulses to
persuade
> > you that something is or isn't intrinsically immoral is completely
> > irrational.  Maybe we should just mix some chemicals together in a glass
and
> > hook it up to a 9 volt battery and devine therefrom what is moral.
Would
> > certainly be just as valid as an atheist following the voices in his
head.
>

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