(July 11, 2015 at 11:10 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Starvald Demelain Wrote: I've got plenty of right. Might doesn't make right in my book; I don't believe your god exists, but if he did I sure as fuck wouldn't recognize him as my lord and master. It's an ethics thing. Just because someone/thing has the power to hurt you doesn't mean you have to worship them.Ethics? The only reason you have any sense of morality is because that's what you were brought up in a society based on law and order. Remove the law from society and access to basic needs, and watch people kill each other in the streets over a scrap of food.
Moses gave the Hebrews the law to show that the Law couldn't be kept due to human nature. Jesus's purpose was to change human nature to into Love (agape). Love is the only Law, if everyone truly loved their fellow man, their would be no need for law.
Long before Moses there were the Precepts of Ma'at, the Instructions of Prah, the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Iwa Pele. The Jews had a lot of material to draw on.
Granted, some things do seem to have originate with Moses. The slave system in America was based on the law of Moses. The law of Moses is more than just the Ten Commandments. All the commandments for genocide, and misogyny and slavery found in the Pentateuch is all a part of the Mosaic law.
Anyone who looks to the bible for ethical instruction is very sick in the head.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.