Why don't Atheists Pillage the Earth?

[Rand_Rover]

@Simplicio

I think he’s spoofing, or at least thinks he’s spoofing the GD thread “Why don’t Christians Skydive”.

Ok, well consider me whooshed then.

[Cervaise]

@Max_the_Immortal

Just the one?

Well, see, because I’m an atheist, I have no long-term view, beyond immediate gratification, and I can’t really think or plan ahead. So as the sun is blowing up and this world is ending, the thought will occur to me, Dang, I should have started with a different sun first. Were I able to consider the implications of my actions beyond the immediately visible future, absolutely I would blow up more suns than this one.

Still, it’ll be a reasonably nihilistic accomplishment, so it ain’t nothin’, as they say.

[Liberal]

@Rand_Rover

Liberal, this thread is surprising coming from you. I expected you to be more up to speed on typical atheist v. theist (specifically christian) arguments (I mean, you believe the ontological argument for the existence of god fer chrissakes).

In any event, you are implying that all sense of right and wrong comes from religion or a belief in god, which is simply not so. Rather, it seems to be an innate part of human nature (just as certain activities and proclivities are an innate part of dog or cat nature). Furthermore, I humbly submit that if you ever stop believing in god you will not suddenly feel the need to go a-rapin’ and a-pillagin’. Finally, your assumption that someone who brlieves their own self-interest is paramount would either want to do those things in the first place or would give in to the urge to do those things shows a very undeveloped understanding of one’s self-interest.

Yeah, but why is it you don’t kill babies by popping their heads with old airplane cranks? That’s why they say you’ll never find an Atheist in a fox’s butt.

5-Star General of the Army Liberal

[Liberal]

@Cluricaun

Because knowing that I’m utterly left to my own devices and that no magic sky father is looking over my eternal shoulder I have little choice but to supply the God attributed joy, beauty, and magic myself. I think I’d be much worse if I thought that I really had a Jesus Brand Safety Net.

Oh, c’mon. What joy and beauty is there in feeding skanky old homeless people with warts on their faces? You’re gonna have to do better than that.

5-Star General of the Army Liberal

[pseudotriton_ruber_ruber]

I reject your premise.

[Liberal]

I disagree.

5-Star General of the Army Liberal

[Frodo]

@Cervaise

Pillaging the Earth is just such small beer. That’s what you’d expect from a third-rate Bond villain. Personally, my ambition is to blow up the sun.

@Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns

Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun

[Half_Man_Half_Wit]

Damn, now I feel a serious urge to burn, rape, and plunder. No, wait! …I just have gas.

[CaerieD]

I don’t know what kinds of mothers you people have, but my mom’s always disappointed in me for not raping and pillaging more. She’s always nagging me about my morality, gifts to charity, refusal to steal, and devotion to my friends. She says as one of the superior creative spirits in the world, it’s practically my duty to step all over the lesser people and take what I want, without bothering with all of these silly concepts like “ethics.”

Oh. Wait.

That’s Ayn Rand, not my mom.

n/m

[Half_Man_Half_Wit]

@Half_Man_Half_Wit

Damn, now I feel a serious urge to burn, rape, and plunder. No, wait! …I just have gas.

So, that was my thousandth post, huh? I dunno, I kinda expected a little more. A chorus of malformed miscreants shouting “One of us! One of us!” or something. Ah well.

[pbbth]

@CaerieD

I don’t know what kinds of mothers you people have, but my mom’s always disappointed in me for not raping and pillaging more. She’s always nagging me about my morality, gifts to charity, refusal to steal, and devotion to my friends. She says as one of the superior creative spirits in the world, it’s practically my duty to step all over the lesser people and take what I want, without bothering with all of these silly concepts like “ethics.”

Oh. Wait.

That’s Ayn Rand, not my mom.

n/m

Thanks, CaerieD, now my coworkers are looking at me funny for laughing so loud!

[Wilson]

We are pillaging the earth. We’re just too smart to get caught.

[Cheesesteak]

Imagine that, atheists manage to be decent human beings without the threat of eternal damnation hanging over their heads. It boggles the mind.

[Mr.Excellent]

Along with all the other reasons stated - I honestly just don’t feel any particular urge to rape or pillage. I mean, do you?

Humans are social animals - odds are, we evolved with an instinctive aversion to certain anti-social behaviors.

[Telperien]

They’re going to pillage the other planets first, kind of like saving your dessert for after dinner.

[Ludovic]

@CaerieD

I don’t know what kinds of mothers you people have, but my mom’s always disappointed in me for not raping and pillaging more. She’s always nagging me about my morality, gifts to charity, refusal to steal, and devotion to my friends. She says as one of the superior creative spirits in the world, it’s practically my duty to step all over the lesser people and take what I want, without bothering with all of these silly concepts like “ethics.”

Oh. Wait.

That’s Ayn Rand, not my mom.

n/m

I’d like to thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand.

[martu]

Have you ever tried to get Atheists to do and\or agree about anything other than the existence of Sky Daddies?

I am working on it I promise you but the rest of my Atheist horde are currently having a discussion about ‘logically there must exist the most powerful thing and this thing must be an ocelot called Susan’.

I’ll get back to you with a pitchfork or something.

[Gukumatz]

Ancestrial urges . . . tingling . . . rrrrrrrgh . . .

[Jack_Batty]

I’m an atheist.

I don’t rape or pillage.

I don’t sky-dive either.

I’m blowing all sorts of theories out of the water today.

[Who_me_1]

@Cheesesteak

Imagine that, atheists manage to be decent human beings without the threat of eternal damnation hanging over their heads. It boggles the mind.

What are you talking about? Raping and pillaging can get you executed, that’s eternal enough for me.

Grabbing toys outta kids’ hands is fun though;)