Atheists are Intolerant

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I'm so perverse for assuming that killing someone against their will is murder

Well,actually it isn't in most societies. Murder is usually defined as "the UNLAWFUL taking of human life". Hence capital punishment,war,killing somebody who tries to rob you,are not murder,but voluntary euthanasia IS murder,because it's unlawful.. Claiming a moral authority they do not possess, some believers try to change the definition to include say abortion.

There are 613 commandments in the Torah. Some are lifted almost verbatim from Hammurabi's code (ca 1772 bce). When Mosaic law was codified, it served several purposes; maintained the status quo, maintained order and social cohesion,and gave the Jews a powerful sense of identity and specialness which helped them survive as a people for several thousand years.

In most societies ,laws and customs change even say in 100 years or so; EG we no longer allow slavery or child labour,women are equal under the law,and most civilised countries have abolished capital punishment .


Problems arise when people are too ignorant,lazy or stupid to master critical thinking.Such simple folk insist on claiming such scribblings were handed down by a transcendent being, are universal,absolute and unchanging.(THEIR interpretation that is) These beliefs are demonstrably false.