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Date Posted: 13:24:55 01/19/06 Thu
Author: 23
Subject: Re: Ten Commandments for atheists
In reply to: noslave 's message, "Re: Ten Commandments for atheists" on 11:44:07 01/19/06 Thu

Kinda interesting, but a bit dogmatic for my tastes.

Especially the second batch on the bottom:

I.�� Thou shalt worship only reason
II.�� Thou shalt abstain from invoking deities in the affairs of man
III.�� Thou shalt disdain all ritual
IV.�� Thou shalt abhor priestliness
V.�� Thou shalt loathe superstition
VI.�� Thou shalt reject all forms of� spiritualism and supernaturalism
VI.�� Thou shalt regard skepticism as a virtue
VIII.� Thou shalt reject racism
IX.�� Thou shalt reject all claims to a moral authority greater than man
X.�� Thou shalt, in word and action, strive to improve the human condition

Disdain from all ritual? Worship only reason? Reject all forms of supernaturalism? (not very scientific, if you ask me)

But an interesting idea. I also think it's silly to call them the "Ten Commandments," seems very reactionary. Start your own movement, peeps!

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[> [> [> Re: Ten Commandments for atheists -- tg, 13:36:30 01/19/06 Thu [1]

I always thought the XTC song Dear God was a good atheist anthem. I heard on the radio today!!

DEAR GOD

Dear God, hope you got the letter and
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving on their feet
'Cause they don't get enough to eat from
God
I can't believe in you

Dear God, sorry to disturb you but
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet about
God
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease
and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear God don't know if you've noticed but
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
Still believing this junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you, dear God
I can't believe in
I don't believe in

I won't believe in heaven and hell
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
You're always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it's the same the whole world 'round
The hurt I see helps to compound
That Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'd perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve

If there's one thing I don't believe in
It's you
Dear God

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