Pixel42 and other folks misunderstood my opinion on moral aspects of skepticism.
I did not say explicitly "skepticism is immoral" in all aspects.
I sustain the intrusion of skepticism in spiritual, religious and mystical human activities is not only prone to spread immorality but also a detour from the basic skeptic foundation.
Skepticism in scientific and technological work is vital. Those are the fields were skepticism contributes to reach earthly knowledge and understanding. Invasion of personal fields, like idealism, spiritualism, love, belief in things beyond proof, emotion and other internal activities is out of center.
From reading some of the thousands of posts I realize skeptics invariable claim for evidence and proof. It is logical to conclude evidence and proof possibilities are fundamental for skeptic thinking.
In other words: The realms of thought, where proof and evidence cannot be obtained and where the same skeptic thinkers cannot define the nature, characteristics and quality of the proof, are not suitable for skeptic discussion, because it is impossible to reach a state of proof or denial.
This means skeptic thinking applied to criticize beliefs in things beyond proof cause distorted perceptions and logical confusion.
One clear example of such confusion is:
Invariably, skeptics express ideas of God as a "punishing entity, mean, and unjust, which demands of humans a certain attitude or otherwise they will be punished with infernal treatment".
Even worse, skeptics constantly sustain, all societies with a religious foundation behave morally because such "fear of punishment".
This also connects with the topic in this thread: Life after Death.
It is true many religions sustain thoughts like those, mainly radical religions, but such creeds do not have a thing to do with the Reality of a Superior Consciousness and the progression of Consciousness through totally different realms and not only within this earthly realm.
True Christian thinking (I am NOT saying religion), as an example, is NOT based in promoting fear to an angry god or a horny devil. It is based on the spread of Love, Solidarity, Unselfishness, Compassion, Truth, Honesty, Sincerity, Devotion and Dedication.
Truly spiritually advanced persons can accomplish those goals without any spiritual guidance. Skeptics can enjoy those qualities as well, as long as they do not destroy them by intruding into others right-to-use their own beliefs to accomplish the same.
The immorality surges when the internal convictions are systematically attacked and ridiculed and if succeeding, destroying the seed of moral behavior. There it is when publicly spread skeptic notions seriously affect large sectors of the social body.
Skeptics also fail to understand there is no need to profess a religion to understand God, Life after Death and Spiritual values.
We could say, those skeptic thinkers who behave with total morality, exhibiting the attributes mentioned above, are actually understanding God, no matter they have replaced his name for "Inner Conviction" or a "native moral state".
Why then skeptics insist in spreading their points of view, using their slogan of "Freeing people from superstition, slavery and fear of death"?
There is a noticeable lack of Honesty when a person claims having "no fear for death". Fear of dying is innate. It is part of the survival instinct. Skeptics are really pretending to be super-humans, beyond natural instincts.
Skeptics also fail to perceive the obvious Order in the Universe. It is necessary to think, demand and accept total disorder to be able to deny a Superior Mind, because there can be no order without intelligence.
Skeptics cannot envision an ulterior purpose for human consciousness except to "enjoy your little time on earth, before you are totally annihilated".
Like getting on a plane, to fly for 10 hours thinking there is no destiny and the plane will land nowhere. (Which you actually don't know until you get there)
Life After Death, LAD, is the logical consequence of a World, whose primordial object is the creation, evolution towards expansion, and emancipation of Consciousness.
If skeptics "love" to thrive in a meaningless world, where nothing has a reason, where there is no ulterior purpose, where there is no order, and where there is an inevitable end.... Be my guests.
But intruding in others mental state, with the purpose of bringing the person down to such an arid state is immoral.
