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I have a quick question for you. A personal perspective question. Would you consider yourself as a follower of Confucious? Some people consider Confucism as a religion, but since there is no diety or talk of afterlife others do not. Yet like other relgions, has an ethics system. There's something that just "athesiem" doesn't teach (other than beliefs in Scientology and belief in no diety), morals and ethics. If we truly are just animals, why not act like them? This is why I believe humans must be superior for a reason. There are tons of animals that have been deemed to be very intelligent and think faster than humans yet they aren't capable of what we've done throughout time.
When the term Athiesm is used, the first thing one wouldn't think about is ethics.
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Why would you assume that I'm atheist? Thats an allegiance to an idea. That is irrational. Morals and ethics are thought to come from cultural practices around the world to keep people in line and obey their leaders and not just kill everyone. Its necessary for survival since we are a weak species. With humanity, unlike any other species, working together in a very complex fashion is a VITAL advantage. And morals precisely create the mental help to get people to work together. Again this is not a fact. Its a theory and I do not have allegiance to it. Just because you don't know for sure whats happening behind a brick wall doesn't mean there isn't something there. You're just proving my point of allegiance. Since there isn't a concrete, factual answer to that question (we cant observe the history of the earth directly) a god from some religion must have had something to do with it. To me directly jumping to that conclusion for some reason with no concrete evidence rooted in facts is a form of irrationality.