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In reply to the discussion: I truly get it, I really do see why people turn to faith in order to find their moral compass... [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)First of all, I don't think that human laws remain constant. Why on earth would I think that? I actually said laws are set in real life, by agreement. They are set, and modified, as our societies develop. "The ever changing world of man", far from being 'fiction', is reality.
If you, as a agnostic, think claims about deities are unknowable, then you must surely see that trying to derive morals from the claims about one of these deities is basing morals on a man-made fiction. And if the idea of the deity is fixed, then this becomes even worse - you end up stuck with morals based on a story thousands of years old, that, even if the writer made up the story with the purpose of justifying what he thought would be good morals, would be one man's opinion, now thousands of years out of date. A continued effort to set morals and laws by societal agreement is far preferable. And an agnostic viewpoint should not be privileging any one religious fiction over another.
No, of course atheists don't "claim to be god". We are people, who live our lives and, jointly, take part in and direct our society.