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Happiness, Atheism and Life

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  • 20-05-2009 4:52pm
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    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.michaelnugent.com/

    Some pretty good yarns on this site. Anyone here a fan or reader?


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    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Only really know of him from the recent Atheist Ireland news going on.

    Some interesting stuff on that site though. Wish I had the time and inclination to keep a blog site that stocked. :)


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    Tyler MacDurden
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Tyler MacDurden


    Ian O'Doherty recommended checking him out in the Indo today.

    I like his interpretation of the Ten Commandments in their original context:

    Ethics of the Ten Commandments
    The ten commandments of Judeo-Christianity are not a guide for ethical conduct. They are laws for regulating the conduct of one Bronze Age tribe. When you read them in the context of the Bible stories from which they emanate, these are the underlying reasons and messages behind them:

    1. Worship only the God who proved his power in Egypt.
    2. Do not engrave or worship images of anything.
    3. Do not swear by saying the word YHVH in vain.
    4. Rest on the Sabbath or you will be stoned to death.
    5. Honour your parents, because you will live longer.
    6. Do not kill people, unless God arbitrarily allows you to.
    7. Do not commit adultery, because men own their wives.
    8. Do not steal things or people owned by your tribesmen.
    9. Do not lie to or about members of your own tribe.
    10. Do not desire things or people owned by your tribesmen.

    Regardless of whether you believe this to be literal truth or literary metaphor, it is no basis upon which to build an ethical moral code. This becomes even more evident when you look at the Biblical background to each of these ten laws.


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