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GUEST,Futwick BS: The 10 Commandments for atheists (119* d) RE: BS: The 10 Commandments for atheists 06 Feb 13


All the good religion has done? Such as what? Charities? You can do charity all you want without a religion. Beyond that, I am frankly stumped as to what this "good" is that religion has done.

Compare that to the bad and there is no comparison. Religion has done questionable good that could have easily been done without a religious conviction and it has done a far more bad that cannot have been done without a religious conviction.

Religion is useless. What is needed is philosophy. When someone says, "I don't covet my neighbors tits" he has no understanding of how his mind works. You can't control what you covet and what you don't. People think they control their own thoughts, they do not. IF you control your own thoughts then stop thinking right now and make your mind a total blank. You can't. Why? Because you can't control your thoughts. So ask yourself, if you don't control your own thoughts then what does? Where do those thoughts originate?

As for "I choose to do good and bad" that's not really true either. You choose to do what YOU BELIEVE is good or bad. In fact, the vast majority of people who do bad believed they were doing something good or at least were not doing anything with the idea of doing bad in mind. But regardless, you can't do good or bad, you can only do what you believe is such and you will be judged by others according to what they believe is good or bad. When you are all in concordance on the matter then things will be fine. When you are not, things will not be so fine.

For instance, a Kuwaiti man was recently sentenced to prison. For what? He went on Twitter and spoke ill of Kuwait's emir whom the Kuwaiti govt hold is inviolable. Did he do wrong in your belief? I'll bet not. But ask a Kuwaiti and you'll get a very different answer.

As for fearing yourself, why should you do that except that you do not understand how your mind works? If you understand it, what is there to fear?


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