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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; James C. Bennett; Ethan Clive Osgoode; Abin Sur; LeGrande; kosta50
Frankly, what's one baby...

Careful there, my FRiend. Your opponents will judge you by some standard they don't believe in. ;-)
54 posted on 05/01/2011 10:17:56 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: angryoldfatman

The Golden Rule is a non-religious standard - do not do unto others what you don’t want done unto you - older than any religion, especially Middle Eastern ones (oldest versions from China and India, by the way) that can settle all moral issues extremely capably.

The cute sarcasm fails.


57 posted on 05/01/2011 10:22:26 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: angryoldfatman; James C. Bennett; Ethan Clive Osgoode; Abin Sur; LeGrande; kosta50
Careful there, my FRiend. Your opponents will judge you by some standard they don't believe in. ;-)

That's just it - atheists cannot have any objective moral standards. They are necessarily ethical scavengers. When an atheist tries to discuss moral issues with a theist, they usually do so by completely miscomprehending the theists starting point, and then try to play little "gotcha" games that are based off of those miscomprehensions.

Like let's take James C. Bennett on here. He goes on and on about David and Bathsheba's baby, though he is probably too badly informed and unknowledgeable about the source material to know that what was going on was basically the judgment that David himself had pronounced, and he was just receiving what he had said would be fair judgment in such a case.

Nevermind the fact that the baby also went to heaven, which means that the little guy didn't even have to go through a lifetime of suffering at the hands of his fellow human beings...which is more than we can say for many who had to endure years, or even lifetimes, under the sort of regimes that people with the same type of worldview as James C. Bennett imposed on them. As such, the child didn't even undergo what can reasonably even be called a "punishment."

So, while Jimmie goes on about Bathsheba's baby and all that, he completely dismisses the millions who died because of explicit atheist regimes. Religious people, well, see they're responsible for anything bad that anyone religious, anywhere, might have done, but not us atheists. No true atheist...and all that.

63 posted on 05/01/2011 10:44:48 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("I'm a member of the Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus fan club!" (Sarah Palin, Sept. 31, 2010))
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