Defending the Church's History

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Tim Hayes:

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IF God does not exist, that is some form of creator to judge our life in terms of his rules then we are FOOLS to follow any moral law, becasue it is disadvantages us against those who do not follow or believe the same laws as ourselves.

Its got me beat why you athiest types live such a life of fear, in fact your fear is even greater than those of religeous believers. Religeous believers (hopefully) live their live according to the rules of their faith which generally is that of a judgement day from a God/s, now your life that you lead on a day to day basis would not be that much different to most of those people, yet you are telling us that it is all nonsence and that you are free from such fear because it is at it core a superstition and not true.

If this is correct then you should be living your life drastically different.

All agnotices are effectively athiests.

Dear Tim,

Thank you for this subtly argued, generous and charitable assessment for how I should live my life. Thank you in particular for your valuable suggestion that I would be better off as a liar, murderer and thief, and that I am a fool to aspire to virtue.

Let us just say that religion is no more a guarantee of individual decency and morality than atheism is a guarantee of depravity. Perhaps the fear that you describe of God’s judgement, that you think keeps the religious on the straight and narrow, is replaced in atheists of good will by an adult recognition that those societies that have the most developed ability to co-operate fare best; and that the world is rapidly becoming a single society on which we all depend for our futures.

Have you ever heard of Robert Axelrod?

And while we are talking about charity, (and I say this to all who read this) visit this webpage and do something to make God proud of you, and make you proud of yourself:
homepage.ntlworld.com/macandrew/Grenada_disaster/Grenada_disaster.htm

Alec

 

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Let us just say that religion is no more a guarantee of individual decency and morality than atheism is a guarantee of depravity

Not a guarentee, as much as a guiding light. Aethiesm leads the soul nowhere, The Catholic church leads the soul to Heaven.