Good without God: Secular humanism and morality 18 Articles

by Alan Perlman

Don't look now, but your neighbor, uncle, cousin, coworker - or even the person next to you in church or synagogue - might be a (gasp!) secular humanist. A secular humanist is almost the same thing as an atheist. If t...read more

by John F

"Good without What: Whose morality?" The obvious hidden assumption here is that there is a good, good is knowable, and good is also attainable or retainable after beliefs in God have been abandoned. Another assumption ...read more

by James Pate

At church recently, the priest talked to us about virtue. He acknowledged that even the pagan philosophers promoted virtue as the path to happiness in this life. But he also maintained that Christianity adds something more...read more

by Rajvee Mehta

What humans really desire in life are comfort and security. This desire comes from the knowledge of being alive in a vast universe and knowing that we only have one life to live in this reality. Although this is a realisti...read more

by Jon Eccles

Arguments about religion as a guide to moral behaviour often go like this. Against: Religious people do bad things. They persecute unbelievers, they torture, they bomb, they murder. For: Atheists also do these things...read more

by Shirley Lake

The Atheist "State of Grace" One of the oddest assumptions non-Atheists make about Atheists is that we lack "spiritual" feelings. An Atheist's wonder and awe in the presence of great beauty, intense emotion, remarkable...read more

by Rita Joyce

Can humans learn to have good judgment and morality without belief in a God? I would definitely think so, because I could use myself as a good example. But it has always baffled me that most religious fundamentalists (whet...read more

by Samuel Lacks

Let us consider a scenario. You are walking past a beggar. It is a winter day that has that rather unpleasant cold bite to it. This beggar is only wearing a T-shirt and some worn jeans, and looks considerably disheartened....read more

by Don Buchwalter

Last week, I received a very important phone call. A few days later, I discovered that my phone was not working. Verizon traced the problem, and discovered that it was an outside "problem." I was told that my phone w...read more

by Samantha Clark

Is it possible to be good without a god? I certainly think it is. I should know, I am without. Deciding to become Atheist was like losing 100 pounds. It's such a freeing experience, one that is very hard to describe. Once ...read more

by Joe Saffioti

Much has been made of the so-called "problem of evil," an argument presented by the likes of atheists such as Bertrand Russell, which confronts perhaps the greatest paradox of both Christianity and Judaism: how can the exi...read more

by cyberhippy

The idea that without religion there can be no true morality, or even a standard by which to measure morality, is ludicrous. The Christian bible advocates the stoning to death of (among other people) homosexuals, adulterer...read more

by Rob Purifoy

I recently met a neighbor who has become my right hand man in a home repair business that my wife and I own and run. He's great in the work that I need him to do but he is only available to "work for man" from Monday thru ...read more

by Gerald Zollar

The last one hundred years or more have seen many technological advances, medical advances and life style changes. The life span of the worlds population has not risen much above that of 150 years ago. Infectious disease ...read more

by Chase Cohagan

Good = God ? I have been raised in a very Christian household my whole life. Dropped off in Sunday school classrooms since before I could talk, adults were reading Bible verses to me. I now do not believe that God...read more

by Farrell Jacobs

As cynical and disillusioned as I am regarding what I've grown to understand about this ineffable experience that is existence, I have recently begun taking notice of the majesty of it all-the brilliance that I've ...read more

by Draven

WHAT IS MORALITY? Morality defined in the American Heritage Dictionary: 1. The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct. 2. A system of ideas of right and wrong conduct: religious morality;...read more

by Roger Passman

Chase Cohagan writes, "A Christian does a great act of kindness and love towards another human being; he does this because of the moral values his God has given him. This act is good." I have some difficulty with this sta...read more