Hey Alan, I would have to ask you why not? I know many athiests and like many of those with faith they come in all flavours. Some are pigs, some are truely decent humans. Hahah to hijack a phrase, I'm not anti atheist, my best freind is an atheist. Seriously though my best freind is atheist, and the best of men. His non belife in a God has had nowt to do with the shaping of his morality as my beliefe in God has had nowt to do with the shapeing of my morality. Let me say this so that I can not be misunderstood, religoin plays NO part in the shaping of a humans morality. Perants, peers, social mores, and the cultur you find your self born into shapes morality.
It would be a poor sort of morality indeed if the only reason for us to treat each other decently where to be 'coz God sed so.' On 13 Sep, 16:30, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, "helping is primal". But the Jihadist, having a different > theology than the Christian, believes he is helping you by converting > you to Islam by the sword. Not so the Christian, for whom religion is > the "The voluntary subjection of oneself to God". > > The island of atheists? Sure, they'd "help others" for some definition > of "help" and "others". I know something about the Christian command > to love my neighbor but don't know the official atheist dogma on > helping others. If one acted like there were no God why would he > think he has any duty to help others? > > On Sep 12, 8:28 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > AW; > > Yes there is............. > > I'll refer you to rigsy's sept. 6 10:15 am post as to my "theistic > > religiosity" comment. > > > Also, people use therapy and AA like a religion- in fact, they "use" a > > lot of things in lieu of religion. What about jingoism? <<<rigsy > > > Do you think no one would help anyone else on an island of atheists > > because they didn't have a religion to tell them to do so? Helping > > is primal and innate as nurturing; religion and faith is human > > construct and not necessity.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
