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To: GunRunner
How do you define moral? Morals are defined by society are they not? Your sense of moral behavior, if living in the US, is largely the result of growing up in a society whose mores have been largely influenced by Judeo-Christian values. Where does the sense of wrong or right “doing” come from anyway? Do you lie? Thou shall not lie. Do you steal? Thou shall not steal. Do you commit adultery? Get the picture? You can disregard what has always been referred to as Natural Law, that which God has enacted to govern life, but disregarding it does not make it so. If I am arguing with an atheist, tell me again why you care.
20 posted on 01/20/2010 9:44:53 AM PST by dps.inspect
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To: dps.inspect
Where does the sense of wrong or right “doing” come from anyway? Do you lie? Thou shall not lie. Do you steal? Thou shall not steal. Do you commit adultery? Get the picture?

You almost ran out of Commandments. Thou shall not bear false witness is the last one that I really follow.

I honor my father and mother because I love them and they've treated me with nothing but love since I've been born. I have some friends who don't honor their parents and rightfully so, since they had really crappy parents.

I don't keep the Sabbath day holy, whatever that means. I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that when I tried to buy a 12 pack of beer at 11:56am on Sunday on my way to a friend's house for the Cowboy game, I had to wait 4 minutes because of state law. I guess it's immoral to buy beer before noon on Sundays.

I don't make idols because I don't have the inclination, but don't think its immoral if someone wants to erect a statue of Luke Skywalker and worship it; that's their business.

I could go on, but the point is that if the Ten Commandments are the foundation for your morality, then we clearly have different values.

And my values support helping people in need, without any supernatural directive, and I don't care if you covet any of my stuff.

23 posted on 01/20/2010 10:52:37 AM PST by GunRunner
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