For example: Atheist - He doesn't believe in God, however in his everyday life, he does good deeds... Theist - He believes in God, however the reason he believe in God because he wants to go to Heaven therefore does good deeds... Therefore I'm asking... which one is more ethical?
Atheist is more ethical than a theist. An atheist does good because he/she is good, whilst a theist is merely trying to impress a god. However I wouldnt call a theist bad though, they are still good people
Well from the description up there, i would say athiest is more ethical because he/she does good deeds not trying to impress god. well i don't think all thiests are like that.
Its a touchy subject. It is true a thesist wants to go to heaven and therefore does good deeds. But if the thesist is only doing good deeds for that sole reason, then he is wrong. I'd rather use the word Christian. A true Christian does good deeds not only because God says to do it, but because he wants to do it, like an atheist. A " thesist" person doing good deeds for the wrong reasons will not be rewarded is basically what im saying.
Thesists have to be more ethical due to their believes in what God believes is the right things a person should do... though in term of God...both have the same goal.. Thesists believe in God because they "know" He exist.. while a TRUE Atheist's suppose is suppose to prove God don't exist...and I forgot how I learned this in college..but it suppose to go something like "if you want to disprove something, you must first acknowledge that it exists"..
the end defines the mean ... in a colder view, as long as the good deed is being done ... it does not matter where the motivation comes from. so in that aspect both parties are ethnical, simply because the good deeds are being done. (this is strictly taking into account that the mean is not an immoral action/method.)
Why even compare ethics? Believing in god is a person's own belief, believing nor not believing is seperate from ethics... When I first took an ethics course, someone said that they thought that the class would make them a better person. The teacher told him it wasn't true!
Technically, both people are ethical in their actions. It's just that the person who does good deeds and not expecting some return in the future has a better morality while the person who does good deeds and expecting a greater return in the future has a less.
Some old thread here LOL, but yeah, I would say that many (not necessarily all) theists do good deed to EARN their right to be on their God's good side... while Atheist do good deed for the sake of it. And we are only talking about good deed here because that's what the OP ask...
Well, apparently he asked the mods about that @_@bbb I didn't dare to dig this up before, but since someone dug it up I am going to enjoy the free ride I wanted to reply to this thread LONG ago
no corruption. if they have an interest in it, then they can post. You can obviously tell he/she isn't spamming.
Yeah, listen to Ironman wind So what's YOUR take on the OP wind??? Is having a faith independent of one's behaviour and in turn do not affect whether one is ethical and moral???
Definitely the atheist is more ethical in this case. Given that the atheist does good not because of repercussion, then he is a morally correct person.
