Assertion: atheist's god | /r/HasProperty | necessary
Facets:
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: nowadays
type: TEMPORAL
value: to ground any moral principles
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Some people claim that consciousness is too mysterious or complex to be explained scientifically, therefore a god is necessary.
text: A god isn’t necessary to explain consciousness; functioning complex brains are.
text: Therefore, it seems that more fault for alleged bad behavior coming from atheists would lay with religious tradition than with atheism, at least insofar as religious tradition staunchly maintains that God is necessary for moral behavior to have any justification at all.
text: A very common line of reasoning holds that God is necessary to ground any moral principles, and that the benefits of acknowledging that there are such grounds to behave morally outweigh the negative consequences of traditional belief in God.
text: But nowadays, gods are no longer necessary to explain the rising of the sun, the design of animals, or the provenance of man.