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Atheists & Agnostics

libodem

(19,288 posts) Mon Feb 29, 2016, 05:43 PM Feb 2016

I Try To Do Good

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I Try To Do Good (Original Post) libodem Feb 2016 OP

deed before creed... tk2kewl Feb 2016 #1

"What keeps you from just killing people?" Curmudgeoness Feb 2016 #2

The truly civilized carry civilization in their hearts, not as a yoke on their backs Freelancer Mar 2016 #3

That external compass is a bane on society, Curmudgeoness Mar 2016 #4

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)

1. deed before creed...

Reply to libodem (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 06:06 PM

Feb 2016

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

2. "What keeps you from just killing people?"

Reply to libodem (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 10:19 PM

Feb 2016

Those are the questions that always scare me. As if the person asking that question would just go on a rampage if they weren't afraid of going to hell.

It DOES feel better not to be an asshole.

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)

3. The truly civilized carry civilization in their hearts, not as a yoke on their backs

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 02:07 AM

Mar 2016

Vine Deloria Jr. said something similar, but far better. I read him a long time ago. If I understood correctly, his take was that Middle Eastern religions first disable the internal compass, and then hand that person an external compass in the form of a book that they are told to trust instead.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

4. That external compass is a bane on society,

Reply to Freelancer (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 10:00 PM

Mar 2016

and the Middle Eastern religions don't have the market cornered.

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