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Undertoad · 10-31-2006, 08:46 AM

0. These are not flames.

1. Determining ethical behavior without a God involved is a similar struggle. Perhaps exactly the same struggle. One may have a religious moral center, or one may have a philosophical moral center.

2. Anthropology shows that humankind has a true fascination with apocalypse scenarios. Almost everyone agrees with one or another, at some time in their life. Luckily none of these believed-in scenarios has come true and humankind continues to exist.

3. When atheists talk to you about there not being a God, in increasingly annoying ways, they love you and are merely trying to get you not to waste your time here on Earth. Since they don't believe in an afterlife, this is a mortal struggle.

10-31-2006, 08:46 AM	#63
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	0. These are not flames. 1. Determining ethical behavior without a God involved is a similar struggle. Perhaps exactly the same struggle. One may have a religious moral center, or one may have a philosophical moral center. 2. Anthropology shows that humankind has a true fascination with apocalypse scenarios. Almost everyone agrees with one or another, at some time in their life. Luckily none of these believed-in scenarios has come true and humankind continues to exist. 3. When atheists talk to you about there not being a God, in increasingly annoying ways, they love you and are merely trying to get you not to waste your time here on Earth. Since they don't believe in an afterlife, this is a mortal struggle.