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[holly_evolving]

“The atheist,” a Chasidic rebbe once said, “serves God. How so? When a believer is told, ‘There are hungry people out there,’ he says, ‘God will feed them.’ When he is told, ‘There are homeless people in our midst,’ he says, ‘God will shelter them.’ When, however, an atheist is told, ‘There are hungry people out there,’ he says, ‘I must feed them.’ ‘Homeless people in our midst? I must house them.’ Turns out, the atheist does God’s work!”

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[wolf-nd-shadows.livejournal.com]

Well, I have always believed that just as there are many types of religious people, there are many types of atheists as well. I have met atheist who believe that their atheism grants them a moral pass on whatever they want, and I've met atheists who have very strong beliefs in a natural order that demands moral action. And frankly, the whole idea that atheists are inherently immoral is a side effect of the whole "religion good/bad" argument. Once dichotomized, the religious can easily make a blanket claim on the moral high ground, and stick the atheists with the other side of that dichotomy. When the dichotomy of the argument is broken, then people actually have to face the complexities of reality.