58: Ethics without God

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week we discuss an ethical system built on two simple questions as developed by Dominick Cancilla, author of the book, "Ask Yourself to be Moral." Great for a quick, easily understood rejoinder to anyone who says that morals and ethics are impossible without God.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Irligiosophy where we have been slapping a baby to save kittens since January 2009.
0:16.0	I'm trying to think in what circumstance it would be necessary to slap a baby in order to save a kitten.
0:21.0	Is there any circumstance that isn't out there worth slapping a baby for?
0:26.0	They're so soft, it just kind of molds to your hand.
0:30.0	You really don't even need an excuse to slap a baby.
0:33.0	That's very true. You just kind of, and you're done.
0:37.0	So what we're doing today, the topic of today is essentially ethics without God.
0:45.0	Why I don't think that's possible.
0:47.0	Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical myself.
0:49.0	As we all know, we derive our ethics from not only God but Christian morality.
0:53.7	So we have a...
0:54.7	Is there any other way?
0:55.7	I mean, I don't think the Buddhists are drawing off of anything other than Christian
1:00.9	morality.
1:01.9	We have a guest today that believes that religion is nothing but a pile of garbage and it should be destroyed and
1:08.5	he presents a system of ethics to allow us to do such a thing.
1:13.0	Yeah, in fact on the back of his book it says should I litter on religion.
1:17.0	Dominic, am I pronouncing that right?
1:23.8	That is correct.
1:24.9	Dominic, why don't you introduce yourself and uh, tell us why you want to destroy religion
1:28.6	so bad?
1:30.1	Why do you hate God?
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