Food for Thought
I'm watching some thing on SciFi on Faith Healing (because there's something else in the program that I want to watch, and I gotta sit though this CRAP about faith first) and Michael McCarron sums up how i think perfectly. You DON'T NEED RELIGION TO TELL YOU HOW TO LIVE. MORALS PRE-DATE RELIGION- THEY HAVE BEEN PRACTICED FOR CENTUIRES BEFORE RELIGON "MADE THEM". Read Plato and Socrates if you want more on that subject, and Aristotle too. Stupid asses that think god makes them moral and that ethics and morals come from the bible. I live an upright life and NOT because I fear going to hell (which is a contridiction all it's own) but becuase I KNOW THINGS ARE WRONG AND I DON'T NEED A BOOK, OR SOME YAHOO WITH THE BOOK TO TELL ME RIGHT FROM WRONG. UGH. Religious nutjobs and various other fruitcakes make me mad.
Having your life be finite, as an atheist believes, makes your actions have consequences. You are responsible for your actions and you must atone not with an invisible father figure, but with your peers. Your memory will be forever tainted if you kill people, defraud people, or otherwise take advantage of the less fortunate. Atheists realize that this is what we have, and we are lucky to have it; we help those who need it because it is the right thing to do to push our society forward.~ Michael McCarron
Having your life be finite, as an atheist believes, makes your actions have consequences. You are responsible for your actions and you must atone not with an invisible father figure, but with your peers. Your memory will be forever tainted if you kill people, defraud people, or otherwise take advantage of the less fortunate. Atheists realize that this is what we have, and we are lucky to have it; we help those who need it because it is the right thing to do to push our society forward.~ Michael McCarron