I'd just like to point something out to Frodo: Kant's whole ethical system, the categorical imperative, was based on the idea that morality can be rational purely by considering what would happen if we universalised our actions. One cannot wish to steal and at the same time rationally wish that everyone else do the same. It's not a sound argument, but it doesn't really need God.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
