-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Read V.M. de Malar's latest Column: | | | | Politics of Destruction | | | | http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sidA6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Mario,
True moral values cannot be made accountable to anyone other than one's self. Our youth look to us for guidance in establishing these values and tend to get discouraged as they see through fictitious characters we have created to try to teach them those values (tooth fairy, santa claus, angels, demons, (god?)....) If you have to live your life according to arbitrary rules created on a theologian's whim or papal decree (as opposed to ones that have been established by discussion, debate and democratic principles as in most of our legal rules) then you have to live with everything else that is thrown at you under the guise of religion. Sincerely, Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. Original Message: ----------------- From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:40:32 -0800 (PST) Is it more lazy to be held responsible and accountable by a universal moral code required by membership in an organized religion - including Buddhism and Jainism - or is it more lazy to be an atheist who claims to have made up his own moral code based on personal convenience, is able to change it as and when it suits him based on situational convenience, and is not responsible or accountable to anyone, other than the law in whatever society they live in? > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .