I am getting tired of the views of theists, especially the religious conservatives! Most of them think that those believe in god have morality and do help others. The altruistic behavior is only found in theists! I just read an account of Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) where she wrote about how PZ Myers and his family's kindness. It is surprising to see that how many people hated PZ and most of these hates are because he is an outspoken godless human being! People are surprised that he was so nice to grrl scientist and was very helpful! My question is what do these theists think of themselves???
Can you be an atheist and be an altruist? Most of the god fearing people think that they are the only one who care about others and all the godless idiots are selfish loosers, live in their own cocoons and will end up in hell! I wish they have paid attention to other culture other than their own religion or culture! Buddhism (which started as a culture rather than a religion) is perhaps only one religion that is atheistic in its core. The foundation of the Buddhism is based on helping others and being kind to others. In this materialistic, self centered culture, it is hard to find people that are helping others. However, it is not rare to see atheists being kind! In fact, in my experience, most of the super unnatural theists are goddamn corrupt, self centered people only think of themselves!
The ultimate question in evolutionary biology would be are these theist really altruist? Or the aethist are more altruists? Think about it...
