The Original Messages of Religion

[Zidneya]

Abstinence doesn't mean refraining from just sex, it simply means to refrain from indulging in something, it could be smoking, alcohol, drugs, overeating, etc.

I don't drink alcohol, smoke nor do drugs but I do it because I don't find any pleasure in it not because I think abstinence is a good thing. It's my choice and only mine that's why I won't support any tradition or costume that neither forbids nor encourages it.

Sinful concepts not such as original sin but rather gluttony, acts of unjustified violence, apathy, etc.

So no more "all the lays you can eat" each friday night?….

Naha...Not in my watch lady!

Yes I agree that these virtues existed long before religion, however, religion for quite a lot of people was the only source where they might observe and discuss these virtues.

You do realize that there wed atheist in the ancient times as well right?

Granted there were some secular schools as well especially in ancient Greece, but the majority of the people did not have such privileges.

Just because you have no choice that to receive an education in a religious school that doesn't automatically makes you a supporter of religion.

As atheists shall we not herald these virtues of humanity separating them from religion to make them more noticeable?

I don't want to sound rude or offend you since you sound like a nice person but I gotta ask:
Separating the good values from religion to make them more noticeable?WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THAT WE ATHEISTS HAVE BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME!! HAVEN'T YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING?!