-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Read V.M. de Malar's latest Column: | | | | Politics of Destruction | | | | http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=416 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Mario, > > True moral values cannot be made accountable to > anyone other than one's self. > Mario responds: > This is precisely the self-serving situation I talk about. Whatever is convenient goes, or can be rationalized. > Kevin writes: > > 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?)....) > Mario responds: > Generations of experience show us that very few kids get discouraged by the imposition of a religious moral code that they are held accountable for. BTW, the tooth fairy, santa claus, angels and demons have nothing to do with a religious moral code. You don't seem to have learned much in your previous life as a daily Mass and Rosary Catholic. > Kevin writes: > > 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. > Mario responds: > You are obviously unaware of the basis, rationale or even the content of religious moral codes. They are hardly arbitrary, or based on "a theologian's whim" but on the accumulated wisdom and experience of centuries in most cases. Papal decrees are made after far more study and reflection than an atheist evangelist like you would ever be able to acknowledge, for your own benefit. Your descriptions fit far more closely with the moral codes of unorganized individual atheist, except that it is each and every individual atheist's whim, based on individual convenience. > Perhaps YOU engaged in some sort of reflection and introspection, but you grew up under a strict Catholic moral code, obviously too strict for you. What did you add after deleting the first three of the Ten Commandments? > What discussion and debate are you asserting for the average individual atheist? Most of them delete the first three of the Ten Commandments and change the rest into the Seven Suggestions. > The democratic principles and legal rules are mostly based on religious moral codes, and are the only societal controls on unorganized atheists and supercedes their individual thinking and convenience. >
