Morality

I believe Chris Cheney says it best with “I don’t believe in god, doesn’t mean I’m a lesser person.” I find those that have major issues with Atheists, majority within the strict Bible belt within America, and particular conservative religious followers believe that atheists can’t be trusted because they are immoral. Within one particular survey within America showed that 50% of people would not vote for an Atheist and only 22% of people wouldn’t vote for those whom were Islamic despite the best efforts of the American media to demonise them after 9/11. So am I immoral because I believe the universe wasn’t created for me?

Simply I’m not immoral, why? I question the word morality in itself. One day during my politics lecture, my lecturer was discussing how all political ideologies have a concept of what they believe is human nature. However after he proceeded to tell us how human nature is a word that means nothing, and everything, because after all everything humanity has, or will do is within our nature to do so.  I see morality as a word that means the same, when do we intentionally do something wrong without justifying it, or making it “moral” I stole something to feed myself or my kids, I killed him before he killed me. We all act in a manner that we see if right, and don’t act in a way that we see as wrong.  As a fan of the TV Show Dexter, we call have a ‘code’ that differs from each other that we use to justify our actions. I therefore act in a manner that I do not do things that I wouldn’t want other individuals to do to me.  But to slam a collection of the population as immoral, that everyone’s actions are wrong, doesn’t sit too well with me.

Ultimately self-morality is created by what every individual believes.  So in the eyes of a hard-core Christian, Muslim, whatever theism I guess I am immoral because that is the way they want to view the world around them. But In my eyes, and in the eyes of those whom matter to me, they would see me as a person who is moral that my actions are good, or that my actions for good out way those that are bad, (aka taking the last chocolate bikkie). I think in the end it’s a matter of 7 Billion different perspectives. Wether one is right or wrong, just like the debate if there is or isn’t a God or Supreme being  I assume will never be answered. But I think in the end the best thing is to be true to one’s self, I think its purposeless to live a life to somebody else’s code, in the end we’re all unique.