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Boojatta

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Tue Oct-20-09 07:20 PM
Response to Reply #16

62. "with no expectation of reward for yourself"

If you expect to pass an academic course and earn the reward of academic credit, then is your effort to study a failure to do what is good? To do a good thing, must you instead use fake identification to earn academic credit for somebody else?

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Good Without God	moobu2	Oct-19-09 07:02 PM	#0
why?	d_r	Oct-19-09 07:07 PM	#1
Atheists are the most disliked minority...	Eric J in MN	Oct-19-09 07:12 PM	#3
i think it's a good thing	paulsby	Oct-19-09 08:37 PM	#27
Atheists like Buddhists have no deity and many religions believe that	county worker	Oct-19-09 07:21 PM	#6
I think the deity is extra. the religion gives you moral codes and	roguevalley	Oct-19-09 11:17 PM	#40
why, yes -	mzteris	Oct-19-09 07:25 PM	#8
christianity has done little to make a better world - why fault the atheists?nt	old mark	Oct-19-09 07:44 PM	#11
I will write a complete sentence, with proper capitalization,	MineralMan	Oct-19-09 08:00 PM	#17
LOOK	d_r	Oct-21-09 10:13 AM	#70
To reduce alienation. Young atheists often have to hide themselves from their own families.	ZombieHorde	Oct-19-09 08:34 PM	#25
It will (and has) for atheists - which is what should matter most to them.	dmallind	Oct-20-09 07:29 AM	#46
No, they KNOW it would make a better world.	rd_kent	Oct-20-09 12:04 PM	#53
OK, first...	ElboRuum	Oct-20-09 01:49 PM	#56
Now THAT, my friend, is incredibly thorough and on point.	darkstar3	Oct-20-09 09:28 PM	#67
Thank you for that reply	d_r	Oct-21-09 10:18 AM	#71
Yawn. Call me when they build a few hospitals.	Countdown_3_2_1	Oct-19-09 07:08 PM	#2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine for one. n/t	Ian David	Oct-19-09 07:21 PM	#5
I hate to get into this again, but Einstein didn't consider himself an atheist.	whathehell	Oct-19-09 07:48 PM	#14
He considered himself an "Agnostic" under a definition that for all intents and purposes is Atheism.	Ian David	Oct-19-09 07:50 PM	#15
He apparently didn't think so as he rejected the label.....Sorry.	whathehell	Oct-19-09 08:18 PM	#
Scientists are among the most likely group of Americans to be atheists	Bjorn Against	Oct-19-09 07:33 PM	#9
That may	GMA	Oct-19-09 08:24 PM	#24
Religion doesn't make people wise either	Bjorn Against	Oct-19-09 08:40 PM	#29
I'm very deeply religious,	GMA	Oct-19-09 09:04 PM	#32
When you put it that way it sounds great...	Bjorn Against	Oct-20-09 07:47 PM	#63
How exactly does theology establish and test its "truth" and falsify its "mistakes" ? NT	dmallind	Oct-20-09 07:32 AM	#48
There's an old meme	darkstar3	Oct-20-09 11:24 AM	#52
You obviously dont unerstand science.	rd_kent	Oct-20-09 12:09 PM	#54
OK. Possible issue here...	ElboRuum	Oct-20-09 02:05 PM	#57
Oxfam, Live Aid, and three of the top 5 philanthropists in the world not good enough for ya?	dmallind	Oct-20-09 07:31 AM	#47
Every little bit helps! People seriously need to question what they believe in, too...	RKP5637	Oct-19-09 07:18 PM	#4
I shut down a couple "christians" in my hubby"s family by daring to	madmom	Oct-19-09 07:24 PM	#7
I usually bring up Pat Tillman when the atheist bashers start with that nonsense.	girl gone mad	Oct-19-09 07:36 PM	#10
What	GMA	Oct-19-09 07:44 PM	#12
"Good" is selflessly doing what you believe benefits your fellow human being...	Ian David	Oct-19-09 07:53 PM	#16
SNAP	darkstar3	Oct-19-09 08:02 PM	#18
"Since religious people believe an invisible person in the sky sees and knows everything"	whathehell	Oct-19-09 08:16 PM	#21
Point well taken. Except the bit about Carlin. n/t	Ian David	Oct-19-09 08:36 PM	#26
Wow.	GMA	Oct-19-09 08:18 PM	#22
Really? "no religious person can ever be truly "good."?	Sal316	Oct-19-09 08:49 PM	#30
Awww... poor, victimized theists... boo hoo. n/t	Ian David	Oct-19-09 08:54 PM	#31
How mature.	Sal316	Oct-19-09 09:13 PM	#34
Maybe after 20,000 years, mankind is finally tiring of invisible man in the sky bullshit. n/t	Ian David	Oct-19-09 10:03 PM	#38
Some never wanted the invisible guy in the first place,	GMA	Oct-19-09 11:06 PM	#39
Choosing for yourself is one thing. Saying, "My invisible friend doesn't SAYS SO" is another.	Ian David	Oct-19-09 11:41 PM	#41
20,000 years?	whathehell	Oct-20-09 06:55 AM	#44
+ 1	whathehell	Oct-20-09 07:08 AM	#45
"positively un-Biblical and not supported at all by scripture"	Boojatta	Oct-20-09 07:14 PM	#61
That has nothing to do with earning your way in through works.	Sal316	Oct-20-09 09:20 PM	#65
"that has nothing to do with earning your way in through works"	Boojatta	Oct-21-09 03:43 PM	#73
Too fucking bad	Ian David	Oct-21-09 10:01 AM	#68
Yes, it's a very ignorant statement.	Boojatta	Oct-21-09 11:15 PM	#79
Great definition. nt	raccoon	Oct-20-09 08:55 AM	#51
+2	Jokerman	Oct-20-09 01:02 PM	#55
"with no expectation of reward for yourself"	Boojatta	Oct-20-09 07:20 PM	#62
Doing well in school is not a moral question.	Ian David	Oct-21-09 10:04 AM	#69
Consider the issue of whether or not a student is making any effort at all to learn.	Boojatta	Oct-21-09 03:41 PM	#72
What about what kind of shoes they wear? n/t	Ian David	Oct-21-09 03:43 PM	#74
I asked four questions. Perhaps you could answer one or two of mine before I answer your question.	Boojatta	Oct-21-09 04:32 PM	#75
When will you give me back my sweater? n/t	Ian David	Oct-21-09 04:37 PM	#76
You seem to have me confused with somebody else.	Boojatta	Oct-21-09 04:52 PM	#77
No. I just figured that if we were going to start arguing about something...	Ian David	Oct-21-09 05:00 PM	#78
+1 n/t	darkstar3	Oct-19-09 07:45 PM	#13
Could you forget that shit about "the sky"?	whathehell	Oct-19-09 08:06 PM	#19
"Another dimension"..	girl gone mad	Oct-19-09 09:32 PM	#35
"If we're being honest..."	whathehell	Oct-20-09 06:44 AM	#42
Actually...	ElboRuum	Oct-22-09 11:11 AM	#80
I always laugh--or wince--	GMA	Oct-19-09 09:37 PM	#36
Of course....Especially if you have nothing more substantial	whathehell	Oct-20-09 06:47 AM	#43
Thank you for sharing.	whathehell	Oct-20-09 08:43 AM	#50
I like the idea of advertizing for atheists	Chemisse	Oct-19-09 08:10 PM	#20
"suggesting they are superior to religious people in that they use reason over belief"	rd_kent	Oct-20-09 03:48 PM	#59
Yes, but see,	darkstar3	Oct-20-09 06:49 PM	#60
Maybe so, but it does not change the facts.	rd_kent	Oct-20-09 09:16 PM	#64
Well, lately, it's Stalin instead of Hitler,	darkstar3	Oct-20-09 09:25 PM	#66
Here's the thing....having the information out there...	Tikki	Oct-19-09 08:22 PM	#23
Love it.	felinetta	Oct-19-09 08:37 PM	#28
I can see nothing objectionable in that campaign	JerseygirlCT	Oct-19-09 09:12 PM	#33
Exactly.	GMA	Oct-19-09 09:40 PM	#37
It would educate even more if done in other parts of the country	Meshuga	Oct-20-09 07:40 AM	#49
I'm sure	JerseygirlCT	Oct-20-09 03:36 PM	#58

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