(Unfortunately, they’re the ones who get the most press.) But such atheists’ repudiation of morality stems more from an antecedent cynicismĪbout ethics than from any philosophical view about the divine. (And for the record, Dostoevsky never said it was.) Atheism does not entail that anything goes.Īdmittedly, some atheists are nihilists. After all, doesn’t the dictionary list “wicked” as a synonym for “godless?” And isn’t it true, as Dostoevsky said, that “if A person who denies God, they reason, must be, if not actively evil, at least indifferent toĬonsiderations of right and wrong. I gather that many people believe that atheism implies nihilism - that rejecting God means rejecting morality. Atheism does not entail that anything goes.
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