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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 March 2015 10:13:23AM 1 point [-]

But a significant number of atheists are nihilists and relativist, and the reasons seem to be the same...they can't imagine naturalized objective ethics. And the common problem is stopping at personal incredulity rather than researching what anyone else has come up with. Show me the kind of atheists who is a moral nihilist, and I'll show you the kind of atheist who disdains philosophy.

Comment author: gjm 30 March 2015 12:40:27PM 4 points [-]

Show me the kind of atheist who is a moral nihilist, and I'll show you the kind of atheist who disdains philosophy

What, like J L Mackie? For someone who disdains philosophy, he sure wrote a lot of it.

Comment author: dxu 29 March 2015 10:49:07PM *  1 point [-]

a significant number of atheists are nihilists and relativist

Source? (Also, what do you mean by "significant number"? Over 10%? Over 20%?)

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 30 March 2015 08:59:57AM 0 points [-]

Conversations with atheists.

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