Indeed and theist need not be patriotic, I know for sure that I have not a patriotic bone in my body.
On 13 Sep, 17:30, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > A person can have a humanitarian mindset regardless of religion. You don't > have to believe in God to be good , you can have a feeling of responsibility > towards society and consider it your duty towards it and do what is good > for you and the others. Patriots need not be religious , yet they feel a > great responsibility towards their country. There are so many motives for a > man to do good to others irrespective of religion. On the other hand people > are known to indulge in vice and ask God's forgiveness later. > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:00 PM, 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 -
