I love that quote. I would post my seminar response, but it’s not that good. So onto the next topic:
Atheism vs Satanism
There is a common misconception going around that atheists are immoral satan-worshipers. I’m here to clear these up.
First off I’d like to point out that if you don’t believe in God (atheist), then you don’t believe in the devil (Christian) either, so how can an atheist be a satanist? Right. It doesn’t make any logical sense.
Now let’s tackle the morality issue. Tell me, what makes a person immoral? The ten commandments:
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’
TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’
THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’
FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’
FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’
SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’
SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’
NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’
TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’
Have you never heard of an atheist who didn’t lie, steal, covet, commit adultery, murder, refuse to honor their parents, say “God” in vain, or bear false witness against their neighbor? And since they don’t believe in any gods, the first two he mentioned aren’t relevant. Religion doesn’t determine morality. Sure, religion has a lot of good messages concerning this issue, but it doesn’t directly make someone moral. In fact, I might go as far as say that sometimes non-religious folk can be more moral than theists, because no one is telling them to be moral. They do it because they want to, not because they’re afraid of being damned to eternal sunburns.
