RE: Religious bumper stickers and other annoying religious actions. (rant, sorta)
May 15, 2015 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 12:34 pm by Esquilax.)
(May 14, 2015 at 6:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 13, 2015 at 6:03 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: My morality is based on the Golden Rule, which is not unique to Christianity.Actually it is. Other cultures present a negative version known as the 'Silver rule'. Since you base your morality on the Golden rule, which was first presented by Jesus Christ, you owe a debt to Christianity. Freeloader.
Factually wrong: ancient China got to the golden rule, in a far more pleasingly phrased iteration than Jesus', long before him.
Confucius Wrote:Zi Gong asked, saying, "Is there one word that may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not reciprocity such a word?" -"Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself"
Mozi Wrote:If people regarded other people's families in the same way that they regard their own, who then would incite their own family to attack that of another? For one would do for others as one would do for oneself.
Laozi Wrote:Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss
In addition, the Egyptian story of the Eloquent Peasant features a roughly similar phrasing of the Golden Rule as Jesus'. Oh, and the Indian Mahabarata contains the phrase "treat others as you treat yourself," just, you know, in Sanskrit.
Do you ever get tired of being so ignorant?
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