This is very interesting when you compare it to a christian saying he gets his morality from the Bible.
Getting your morality from the Bible is neither better nor worse than getting it from SF and Fantasy novels. “It’s not worse” is more important to me because as an atheist I would have a tendancy to look down upon claims of getting morality from the Bible (because they often go hand-in-hand with implying that atheists have no morality). So I should be careful about throwing the first stone.
“Your morality is inborn, just like everyone else’s” and “Getting your morality from a book is irrational therefore bad” are both claism that an atheist could make and that in fact might be too strong. I’ll have to think about that a bit. (it’s a subject I’ve been thinking about a bit recently, but I didn’t link it to my own “childhood reading” ’till now.)
This is very interesting when you compare it to a christian saying he gets his morality from the Bible.
Getting your morality from the Bible is neither better nor worse than getting it from SF and Fantasy novels. “It’s not worse” is more important to me because as an atheist I would have a tendancy to look down upon claims of getting morality from the Bible (because they often go hand-in-hand with implying that atheists have no morality). So I should be careful about throwing the first stone.
“Your morality is inborn, just like everyone else’s” and “Getting your morality from a book is irrational therefore bad” are both claism that an atheist could make and that in fact might be too strong. I’ll have to think about that a bit. (it’s a subject I’ve been thinking about a bit recently, but I didn’t link it to my own “childhood reading” ’till now.)