Nature's Laws

[FatAndFaithless]

That does sound like something that would be from Christianity. Sadly, Christianity can focus very heavily on making you hate yourself. It sets standards that are so high you are almost certain to fail, and fail constantly.

It's a dirty, disgusting trick. Morality, any morality that matters, is about the wellbeing of life on this planet. It's not about the feelings of undemonstrated magical beings. I'd rather curse god's name all day long than hurt someone. This is another trick: the conflation of sins with actual immoral, harmful acts. If you stop and examine them in this way, you'll see the two are not related except by coincidence.

If God values his ego higher than the wellbeing of humans and animals, then he is not worthy of praise.

In part, my reason for bringing up the first commandment is to make the point that we don't actually have to DO something to violate a moral absolute.  If I love money more than God then I condemn myself by my attitude toward money (relative to my attitude toward God) and not by doing something horrible toward others.  Some horrible and detestable crimes are committed every day by people who have taken the attitude that money is more important than anything else.  It always starts with a persons heart; our attitudes about things matter.

So..just your thoughts can be grounds for 'condemnation' by God?