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Old 01-26-2009, 07:10 PM   #223
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You all know me and know that I am proud to be a Christian - why don't you join me in gratitude to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for dying for us and paying the price for our sins?

.....Even without faith, surely no one can deny that the Golden Rule and Ten Commandments are clear instructions for living a life of good morals.

.... I hope this will be the final post to this thread and that it will disappear into obscurity very quickly.
1) In good conscience, I can only decline. However, I thank you for the invitation.

2) The Golden Rule is a good start for ordinary people, but hardly comprehensive, since tastes and expectations differ. What should a masochist do, for instance? And it seems to me that only four of the Ten Commandments are useful at all in regard to living a good life; the first five are about maintaining the proper relationship with someone I don't think exists, and the tenth is basically un-followable, and appears to function only to induce guilt to give people leverage over you. That leaves don't kill, don't steal, don't commit adultery (which might better be rephrased as don't break promises to be faithful--or possibly as don't break promises period) and don't tell lies that get people in trouble. Which are good rules, but fall short of being comprehensive even in a general way (don't cause unnecessary suffering, and don't damage the environment would be a couple of badly needed additions, for instance).

3) Speaking for myself, your post gave it new life. I am too early in the thread to be sure of other people's reactions, though.

And as regards the OP, and the first post, I thought _The God Delusion_ was an excellent book. It was a refreshing change to see someone standing up for atheism as vigorously as religious books stand up for religion. To those people talking about looking up more of Dawkins work, I also really enjoyed _The Ancestors Tale_ though in that case I think I would recommend getting the book in paper; I suspect the "descent tree" that decorates the start of each chapter wouldn't translate well to liseuse screens. Though I would have liked search capability while reading it, so maybe e would work better if available. Hmm. If you go with e, post on how well it worked out for you, okay?
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