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I had a really nice weekend. The details of that weekend are rather boring, but that's because it was nice. Good stories come from trouble and conflict. They don't come from pleasant days spent with friends and family. Boredom is the mother of conflict. Most shit gets stirred up by people with nothing else better to do.

So, I have a mini-debate with an agnostic friend where I put out the moral argument. He didn't do so well because like all unbelievers he resorted to inconsistency. The moral argument I make is fundamentally no different than something Nietzsche and Sartre would say, and those cats were atheists. In a world without God, there are no transcendant standards of right and wrong. As such, all morality is merely tradition or the whim of some stronger agent. For the existentialists, the issue was how to live in such an empty world.

The upside of a world without God is that you have unfettered freedom to do whatever you want. The downside of that world is that everyone else has the same freedom, and they will exercise it. For most godless, they attempt to retain freedom for themselves while insisting on moral restraint for everyone else. The absurdity of this position should be plainly evident.

You can't slip God in the backdoor after you have thrown Him out the front door. Either you believe and obey, or you do not believe and accept the consequences that no moral claims exist apart from the barrel of a gun. Might makes right. The weak are meat for the strong, and they will be devoured.

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