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Originally Posted by Gonzalvus
After all, if there's no God, why sould you care about anything that's not your own pleasure?
That's what's relevant about religion.
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I have many times thought about this. And in fact this is the real point I intended to discuss when I aproached Phenton.
I have met many people that being deeply atheist, had on the other hand, very strong social values. Furthermore I have known people that claimed to be "perfect Catholics" ("de misa diaria" as we say in Spain), and then fail terribly as individuals, having no social values what so ever,and being what we could call "selfish money lovers".
My doubt is of course what Savorgnan said, which I will resume in: "this atheists - cultural christians- are socialy focused because they have a Christian back round, but, if this back round keeps on geting weeker in time, the next generations of "atheists" will be simply that, and will with time look for a new "truth"."
On the other hand, you could claim that their could be perdurable atheists, socialy focused with Christian values, based in the sense of RESPONSIBILITY towards their society, their homeland, their people, and that to get that it is just a matter of education. This people could claim that they do not need to feel that in the "other life" they will be punished or prized for their behaviour in this life.There prize simply would be to live responsibily the present.