(May 28, 2011 at 3:43 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Thanks FNM. If you demand what people do... that's a morality from rules rather than morality from thinking. In this plan (Xtianity) you're meant to make your own choice.Then how do you explain the ten commandments? The bible is always preaching morality from rules and tells you not to make your own choice about certain acts. Why so clear on things like murder, lying, stealing, and even worshiping false idols, but so ambiguous on slavery?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell