Atheist Dan Barker Notes That Rape Can Be A Moral Good

4 years ago

Atheist Dan Barker (author of "Godless") says he's willing to rape children to "save" humanity. Worldviews is what is being debated here.

RAPE:
✂ theism: evil, wrong at all times and places in the universe -- absolutely;
✂ atheism: taboo, it was used in our species in the past for the survival of the fittest, and is thus a vestige of evolutionary progress... and so may once again become a tool for survival -- it is in every corner of nature;
✂ pantheism: illusion, all morals and ethical actions and positions are actually an illusion (Hinduism - maya; Buddhism - sunyata). In order to reach some state of Nirvana one must retract from this world in their thinking on moral matters, such as love and hate, good and bad. Not only that, but often times the person being raped has built up bad karma and thus is the main driver for his or her state of affairs (thus, in one sense it is "right" that rape happens).

For instance, in an interview Richard Dawkins admits the arbitrariness of evolutionary ethics:

★ JUSTIN BRIERLEY: When you make a value judgement don't you immediately step yourself outside of this evolutionary process and say that the reason this is good is that it's good. And you don't have any way to stand on that statement.
★ RICHARD DAWKINS: My value judgement itself could come from my evolutionary past.
★ JUSTIN BRIERLEY: So therefore it's just as random in a sense as any product of evolution.
★ RICHARD DAWKINS: You could say that, it doesn't in any case, nothing about it makes it more probable that there is anything supernatural.
★ JUSTIN BRIERLEY: Ultimately, your belief that rape is wrong is as arbitrary as the fact that we've evolved five fingers rather than six.
★ RICHARD DAWKINS: You could say that, yeah.

And atheist Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, Dr. William Provine in a debate with a theist Phillip Johnson notes as well:
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✦ Modern science, i.e., evolution, implies that there is no purpose, gods, or design in nature.
✦ There are no absolute moral or ethical laws.
✦ Heredity and environment determine all that man is.
✦ When we die, we die, and that is all there is.
✦ Evolution cannot produce a being that is truly free to make choices.

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