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You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines

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RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines

January 23, 2017 at 9:35 am

(January 20, 2017 at 12:47 am)pool the great Wrote: The ten commandments are in my opinion guidelines. There is no harm in following them.

Quote:You must not be envious of your neighbour's goods. You shall not be envious of his house nor his wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.

The tenth one presupposes that women are the property of their husband, no different from his house or his 'goods.' It's not gender-neutral, either, which further implies that a woman cannot possess anything that another person would covet (save, perhaps, for her potential status as a wife). Also... it's thoughtcrime. It does not warn against taking action, but against wanting something. A person could use that envy to work hard and build himself a house just like his neighbor's. Or a better one.

Five through nine seem like good and proper guidelines for behavior. The other five are... meh.

"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould

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You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ErGingerbreadMandude - January 20, 2017 at 12:47 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Minimalist - January 20, 2017 at 1:01 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by popeyespappy - January 20, 2017 at 1:09 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by energizer bunny - January 20, 2017 at 1:09 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ErGingerbreadMandude - January 20, 2017 at 3:54 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Astreja - January 20, 2017 at 1:10 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Aristocatt - January 20, 2017 at 1:22 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Astreja - January 20, 2017 at 2:20 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Edwardo Piet - January 20, 2017 at 1:12 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Alex K - January 20, 2017 at 1:12 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Jesster - January 20, 2017 at 1:15 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by paulpablo - January 20, 2017 at 1:24 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by energizer bunny - January 20, 2017 at 1:50 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Wyrd of Gawd - January 21, 2017 at 3:09 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Cato - January 20, 2017 at 2:22 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by vorlon13 - January 20, 2017 at 2:46 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by robvalue - January 20, 2017 at 3:56 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by chimp3 - January 20, 2017 at 7:02 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ApeNotKillApe - January 20, 2017 at 7:05 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Casca - January 20, 2017 at 7:13 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Anomalocaris - January 20, 2017 at 8:30 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by robvalue - January 20, 2017 at 8:59 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Crossless1 - January 20, 2017 at 9:02 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ApeNotKillApe - January 20, 2017 at 9:00 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by robvalue - January 20, 2017 at 9:16 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Crossless1 - January 20, 2017 at 9:22 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Chad32 - January 20, 2017 at 2:41 pm

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RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Edwardo Piet - January 20, 2017 at 2:56 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ApeNotKillApe - January 20, 2017 at 3:05 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Astreja - January 20, 2017 at 11:43 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Aristocatt - January 22, 2017 at 9:14 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Fake Messiah - January 23, 2017 at 4:14 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Wyrd of Gawd - January 23, 2017 at 4:27 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Cyberman - January 20, 2017 at 11:51 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Cecelia - January 21, 2017 at 12:22 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Wyrd of Gawd - January 21, 2017 at 2:54 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ErGingerbreadMandude - January 21, 2017 at 2:56 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by AceBoogie - January 21, 2017 at 6:26 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ApeNotKillApe - January 22, 2017 at 5:39 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by AceBoogie - January 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ApeNotKillApe - January 23, 2017 at 4:40 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by AceBoogie - January 23, 2017 at 4:59 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by ApeNotKillApe - January 23, 2017 at 5:01 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Thumpalumpacus - January 22, 2017 at 3:54 pm

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Tonus - January 23, 2017 at 9:35 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by maestroanth - January 29, 2017 at 4:31 am

RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines - by Simon Moon - January 30, 2017 at 1:38 pm

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