I see no other possible way to interpret and
Although I guess when somebody called you out on that and you revised it towhich clears it up a little bit.
I'm still at a loss as to how having no other gods before the one true god, refusing to worship idols, not using your god's name in vain and keeping the sabbath holy hurts society. These rules only affect Christians. Christians don't mind them, and nobody else cares. Christians might try and convince you their religion is the one true one, but they sure don't try and drag you into church with them on Sunday or set your house on fire because you said "OH MY GOD." They hurt nobody. Maybe having them occasionally knock on your door and try and sell you a bible is a inconvenience to you, but it's a minor one at worst. If you want to argue that they are hurting themselves by not believing in science and that the lost productivity from people not working on Sundays is probably worth billions, fine, but seriously, I think you're going to have a hard time justifying that these rules alone do something bad to society.
You say it's because they are treated as equal. Perhaps all are equal before God (but who's to say, you're not God) but you're going to have trouble finding a Christian who is going to be more concerned about people using Jesus Christ as an exclamation than people getting raped.
Also if you read the rest of the chapter you would find that there are different degrees of each sin, and the punishments are clearly not equal. But I know reading mystic books is a challenge for you. It was hard enough for you to google "LIST OF TEN COMMANDMENTS."
I had a lot of trouble responding to what you said here because I could not understand it in the context of what you were quoting.
It sounds like you're reasserting your belief that religion is not real. Fine. I don't care. That's not what I'm talking about.
The Ten Commandments do have a use. They codify God's word obviously. Why don't you ask a Christian what their use is?
Hey finally. "Some Christians interpret the bible in a way that compels them to make bad public policy." Go on.
How Christian morality is killing America is way too vague to argue compellingly in 4 forum posts (or even 20). You could get a book deal for that, although judging from your previous posts your editor would probably run out of red ink. What about Muslim morality? What about Hindu morality? Is there a reason you focus on Christians solely? Do you even know anything about Islam? What about other religions? If not, how can you make a claim about all religion based on Christianity? If so, why haven't you mentioned them? What if I could cite an example of a good thing morality did for every bad thing you say it does? For example (and this is wild speculation with no figures or sources but you shouldn't have any problem with that) suppose tidings given by Christians had enough value that they saved more lives than stem cell research did? Does this make up for negative effects of their opposition? Why not?
I mention Christianity the most because it has the most influence in domestic politics. I am not as ignorant as you are implying here. All three of the Judeochristian religions have the same basic concepts, all of whom are not good. Christianity in the United States has skewed politics in a lethal way.
I thought I stated I was referring to religious morality before I actually did, and I worded those posts very poorly.
When you say I assert my belief that something is not true, you are essentially saying that asserting the view that anything without evidence should not be believed is moronic.
"The Ten Commandments do have a use. They codify God's word obviously. Why don't you ask a Christian what their use is?"
Why don't I ask the manufacturer of a DVD re-winder what its use is? There is no logical reason to include the first four commandments, and yet they are said to be valued moral guidelines. Moral in what way? Promoting bigotry and censorship? That's all they do.
It is not just Judeo-Christian morality that harms this country, it is some of their basic ways of thinking. For example, there is an overwhelming tendency to assert that God did something because it cannot be explained. If this assertion is accepted, we would not advance in science at all.
"I had a lot of trouble responding to what you said here because I could not understand it in the context of what you were quoting."
You said that morals existed before religion, which is fits exactly into why we do not need religion for morality.
"I'm still at a loss as to how having no other gods before the one true god, refusing to worship idols, not using your god's name in vain and keeping the sabbath holy hurts society. These rules only affect Christians."
They directly promote bigotry and intolerance, and not in the argue / debate manner which I pioneer on this forum (yell expletives and arguments and hope someone gives up). If someone works on the sabbath, has a different view about religion (another problem with religion in general: intolerance of each other), and uses common phrases such as "OH MY GOD" (which is so ingrained into our society that even I say it), they are viewed as unholy by the Judeo-Christian religions and therefore frowned upon.
"You say it's because they are treated as equal. Perhaps all are equal before God (but who's to say, you're not God) but you're going to have trouble finding a Christian who is going to be more concerned about people using Jesus Christ as an exclamation than people getting raped."
They are treated as equal. Out of 10 possible rules, would those four be the ones you pick? Now you say you're not God and neither am I, but if a God goes against human morality, as imperfect as it is, what kind of God is this? Would you worship him because he's good or you want to go heaven? This God is jealous, a quality that even humans can control.
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At least they don't commit libel every three seconds.
