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Date Posted: 20:10:07 07/30/07 Mon
Author: Tint
Subject: Re: Religion
In reply to: Deep Diction 's message, "Re: Religion" on 16:50:11 07/26/07 Thu

Mr. Diction:

Thank you for your comments. I was letting your comments percolate too. Buddhism says that life is suffering. Most of the rest of the religions believe that life is a test of some sort and that it is in the afterlife that we get our eternal due. I have experienced heaven on earth and now, to some extent, I am experiencing a hell. Both of my own design.

However virtuous, though, having a moral codebook based on respect for others may be, it doesn't address how i deal with myself. If I believed in God I might be scared of punishment for my actions. The collateral implied damage to those who care about me is not really in violation of my atheistic moral code.

Maybe I need to rewrite the code.

Man I sure wish someone would invent some kind of anti-boredom, withdrawal-eliminating pill. Get on that would ya, Dirk?

>I'd say that if you need a moral guidebook, Buddhism
>is the way to go. But I don't know much about it, and
>wouldn't bother with the silence or the meditation
>stuff.
>
>But generally speaking, I think an atheist who chooses
>to adhere to a moral code purely out of respect for
>others is infinitely more virtuous than somebody who
>only adheres to moral codes because they expect to be
>rewarded for it by whatever deity they follow.

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