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Fantastic article. I don't think I could have put it into words better if I tried. I love it when I read something that is perfectly in jive with what I think and feel.
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Thanks for that. What a very well written and pleasing publication. I can't give you rep points because I have to spread some around, but I'd like to say how appropriate an argument it presents when discussing religion and morality.
Again, keep in mind that even secularly morality prohibits causing harm to others. With those kinds of acts still prohibited, why shouldn’t we love ourselves and embrace the pleasures life has to offer? After all, we only get this single lifetime, and to live it in a constant state of self-derision directed at our very human desire to seek pleasure seems a terrible waste.
Wow, that whole article was perfect and amazing, a trumpeting wake up call. But the above quoted paragraph is really what makes religion make so little sense (and, conversely, atheism or strong agnosticism make so much sense). Thanks for posting it, Troop!
The day that atheism can guarantee that power will not corrupt is the day that I'll believe that atheism (or any other philosophy) is free from sin.
Or to say it in the blunt words of Karl Marx:
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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Karl Marx German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883)
That was an excellent article and although I agree with the sentiments of Tricky D regarding the corruption of mankind I think that it summed up my thoughts about religion versus atheism very well.
Tricky, I'd rather be under a corrupt atheist system than a theist system. That may just be me, though.
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Unfortunately power still corrupts, whether it is in a atheist system or in a theist system.
