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"King David (try reading the Psalms)"

Wasn't he the guy who saw his neighbor's wife bathing on the roof and had her husband sent to the war front so he could nail her?

[grey_whiskers]

Not only that, but the guy, Uriah the Hittite, was one of "the thirty": the most renowned of all David's troops...and of course, one of David's sons tried to rebel against David, as prophesied to David, on account of his affair with Bathsheba.

BTW, which post of mine *were* you responding to, there? (Long thread)...

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Now I've read your reply to King David in context...

Even from *that* point of view (adulterer/murderer) David provides something of a counterexample to the earlier claim--when he "took a Bath" (bad pun) he certainly wasn't being motivated by any craven fear of afterlife-type consequences.

But of course the whole issue hinges on whether the "afterlife" stuff is true. If it is, of course it is reasonable to take it into account when considering current actions; but if there is no afterlife, then the short-term good for our fellow-man right now would take more weight than concern for one's soul.

Cheers!