Okay, yesterday was April 20th. To some, it's the international pot day. To others, it's the birthday of a scumbag named Adolf Hitler. This year, incidentally, April 20th falls on the Hebrew calandere's eve of the Holocaust Rememberence day. April 21 is Holocaust Rememberence Day this year.
Now, it ties in with something I talked to people a lot in the past couple of years, and also in tengaged, in the past couple of days. Religion, and the moral argument for the existence of god.
See, all of us, atheists, agnostics, followers of Yahweh, followers of Christ, followers of Shiva, followers of Allah, followers of the flying spagetti monster, we all know that some things are objectively wrong. Just wrong. We're all moral. Yes, there are moral atheists. If anybody you know denies it, kick him in the balls!
Here's the problem: We're all human beings. All equal. Even those who disagree with you on issues of murder.
Take Adolf for example. Adolf is a human being that was born on this planet, lived on this planet, and was given (by god, nature, Satan, whatever) several decades on this planet. He had a set of his own moral values.
Then there is you. You're a human being that was born and is living on this planet. You're given a few decades. You feel you're superior in your morality to Adolf Hitler. Okay. But he feels he's superior to YOU. And you're just a human, and he's just a human. What makes your opinion of the holocaust, OBJECTIVELY BETTER, SUPERIOR, ABOVE that of Hitler? Under what standards to you judge him? Yours? Well, he judged members of my family under his standards, and I assume they ended enjoying a nice gas shower (I have no clue. My grandfather said they just stopped writing at some point).
So, if you're an atheist who believes in absolute morality (murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, cheating is wrong) under what standards do you make your judgement? And what makes it better than my judgement, or Bernie Madoff judgement, etc?
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heyheyhey, April 20th is actually my birthday aswell!
It's also the birthday of Shlomo Perel, a young German Jew who pretended to be Aryan and survived the holocaust by joining the Nazi military and the Hitler Yugend.
