(February 20, 2014 at 11:44 pm)Lek Wrote: The bible tells the way to salvation. It not just a book of morals. Also, we don't always follow our moral compass or we don't always have correct ideas of what is /is not moral.
Yet I, a person who wouldn't even dream of using the book as a moral guide - not if I wanted to stay outside of prison, anyway - I would never kill a child either. Nor indeed kill anyone, especially if a voice in my head told me to. In other words, I don't need to get my morality from the bible or any god's pronouncements. So why would I need salvation? And from what, exactly?
I'll put it another way. As far as I am concerned, anyone who needs to get their morality from a book deserves the title 'sociopath'. I don't need to be told not to murder, or steal, or rape, or whatever. I don't do those things and many, many more because somebody, even a god, tells me I mustn't, not even because they're immoral - but because they are shitty things to do.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
