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To: Tribune7
The article states, "Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics."

And I am to assume those "borrowed ethics" are purely christian? And that they didn't exist at all before Jesus died?

There is so much wrong with this idea, I wouldn't even know how to begin making fun of it.
43 posted on 11/17/2003 10:41:06 AM PST by whattajoke (Neutiquam erro.)
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To: whattajoke
And I am to assume those "borrowed ethics" are purely christian?

I guess that depends on the ethics you borrow.

49 posted on 11/17/2003 10:57:11 AM PST by Tribune7 (It's not like he let his secretary drown in his car or something.)
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To: whattajoke
You all forget that Judaism existed long before Christ. Perhaps some of you believe that G-d gave Moses the Ten Commandments a week before Christ appeared on the scene.

So many of our laws and beliefs in moral right and good descend from Judeo-Christian teachings. It is the basis of our constitution. Without that moral gyroscope we would be a wretched society. Who's to say that without Judeo-Christian values that we would still be a moral and good society? I believe this because there's something in my subconscious which affirms this. That subconscious is what survives when the body dies and withers away to dust. I believe this because no atheist has been able to convince me otherwise.

And who is more right: the atheist who attempts to impose his way of life on others (ie, lawsuits filed for the alleged violations of church and state)or the Christian who at least tries to explain his beliefs without imposing them on anyone else? Last time I looked there were no Christians filing lawsuits for someone imposing their atheistic ways on them.
435 posted on 11/20/2003 7:40:54 PM PST by jaugust ("You have the mind of a four year-old boy and he's probably glad he got rid of it". ---Groucho!)
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