[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Be Trusted with Political Power

Feste, As I've mentioned to Judy, these law abiding atheists are such because they fear the existing laws of society. They know that they'll go to jail if they misbehave. If the laws don't exist, there is nothing to hold them from committing acts that may be prohibited by the bible or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Be Trusted with Political Power

There's more to having a good moral compass than just being law-abiding, first of all. There's more to morality than laws. Second, you're drawing entirely unwarranted conclusions about what atheist leaders would do and why. You're just making assumptions without any real facts to back them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Be Trusted with Political Power

Judy, I understand what you're saying. Priests who are sexually abusing others, although they know it's wrong are the signs of the fallen nature of human beings. It's called the original sin in the bible. If this sin is prevalent among those who profess faith, IMO it is more so among

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Be Trusted with Political Power

Yes, John, I know what he's saying. Do you know what *I'm* saying? The notion that only religious people have a moral compass is absurd. There are plenty of atheists who are extremely moral, and plenty of deeply religious people who are not (think of the Catholic Church's problems with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Be Trusted with Political Power

I see no evidence at all that atheists lead lives that are any less moral than those of religious people. Atheists may well possess a moral conscience that holds them to very high ethical standards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, IMO, he's saying that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Be Trusted with Political Power

Judy, IMO, he's saying that atheists like Stalin and Lenin think that they are gods onto themselves and can justify acts of infamy by using a material standard, such as communism or their own ideas and ignore standards based on moral grounds, ideas based on spiritual values or the realm of