You can be a morally upright pagan (for example Aristotle). Prudence, justice fortitude temperance, and piety - the cardinal virtues - were articulated and understood by some even before Christ. The problem is that these Godless people on the modern left are not even good pagans. They have no morality, in fact they reject the notion of objective morality.
I would never argue that an atheist, pagan, or even a satanist, cannot behave in moral ways.
The issue is that those who do not believe in God have no justification whatsoever for whatever "moral codes" they follow. A godless universe is incapable of giving a care about any type of behavior. And any "moral code" they can imagine would be arbitrary.
That 90% of what they do is really for their benefit.
Welcome to all of us.
And if there is no God, there is no good, because an accidental universe has zero room for the concept of morals. Morals are seriously for Darwinian losers.
If you are still under the illusion that you are a good person, why not measure yourself against God's standard. Look at the very simple, Ten Commandments.
It's "just" ten simple rules. However, if you break even one of them, you burn. And most can't get past "bearing false witness" (lying ever in your life.)
Which is why Jesus had to come as the ultimate sacrifice.
Even the most jaded, atheist biblical scholar will NOT argue that Jesus never existed. There is far too much proof for that.
Satanists, more specifically Luciferians, are very moral people. The difference between us and them is that we believe in a God who provides for us. They believe that man is his own god and aspires to achieve that godhood in this lifetime on their own.
You can be a morally upright pagan (for example Aristotle). Prudence, justice fortitude temperance, and piety - the cardinal virtues - were articulated and understood by some even before Christ. The problem is that these Godless people on the modern left are not even good pagans. They have no morality, in fact they reject the notion of objective morality.
I would never argue that an atheist, pagan, or even a satanist, cannot behave in moral ways.
The issue is that those who do not believe in God have no justification whatsoever for whatever "moral codes" they follow. A godless universe is incapable of giving a care about any type of behavior. And any "moral code" they can imagine would be arbitrary.
Imagine being a good person because youre actually good, and not because youre afraid of hell
Imagine that no one is ever good.
That 90% of what they do is really for their benefit.
Welcome to all of us.
And if there is no God, there is no good, because an accidental universe has zero room for the concept of morals. Morals are seriously for Darwinian losers.
If you are still under the illusion that you are a good person, why not measure yourself against God's standard. Look at the very simple, Ten Commandments.
It's "just" ten simple rules. However, if you break even one of them, you burn. And most can't get past "bearing false witness" (lying ever in your life.)
Which is why Jesus had to come as the ultimate sacrifice.
Even the most jaded, atheist biblical scholar will NOT argue that Jesus never existed. There is far too much proof for that.
Instead, they contest His divinity.
I constantly do things against my own interests because it's the morally right thing to do.
Jesus could be a man like Trump, dont mean God is real.
Satanists, more specifically Luciferians, are very moral people. The difference between us and them is that we believe in a God who provides for us. They believe that man is his own god and aspires to achieve that godhood in this lifetime on their own.
And, yet, without God, everything they do is meaningless, and they end as worm food.
Gods don't die.