Many civil laws are derived from religious precepts.
On Sep 14, 3:12 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
