Louis if you are genuinely interested in one persons answer to your question then read or listen to the This I Believe Essay by Penn Jillette. Here is the URL again http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557 (Sorry that you will have to copy and paste.)
Among other comments in that short essay -
"Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness
and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I
have to try to treat people right the first time around."
Despite your incredulity, it is possible to have a moral code that is not based
on belief in a diety or religion.
Dennis
-Louis wrote -
You know what I find interesting about this discussion? No one has
even
attempted to answer my question. Some of you have tried to dance around an
answer, hide
from it, deflect it, change the discussion, or parry and counter-thrust because
you
wrongly assume my questions are a defense of a religious based moral code and
an attacking
thrust against any non-divinely originated moral code as baseless and wrong.
Interesting.
Socrates would be smiling. So, I'll ask it again with no intent of being
judgmental. If
you do not accept the existence of a divine entity and thus the validity of a
divinely
ordained moral code, what is the source or origin or base or criteria or root
for the
moral code you do accept and strive to follow?
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