atheist ten commandments

hillbillyatheist · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:45 am Post subject: atheist ten commandments

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I thought this was pretty cool. real ten commandments to live by. Wink

http://throwawayyourtv.com/2007/02/atheist-10-commandments.html

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rock · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:21 am Post subject:

My list is shorter.

1. Be reasonable.
2. Be logical.
3. Be open.
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Uncertainty · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:16 am Post subject:

I don't really like it when people try to make atheist rules or symbols. :O

But some of these don't really seem like good rules anyway I don't think. Maybe I'm just nitpicking or something.

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lumpymunk · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

The Term "Commandments" is a limitation in itself, because commandments limit you're choice and reduce morality to an if/then statement that is incredibly insufficient. Commandments are a statement of a predefined accepted morality. A 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
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CruciFiction · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

tonyman1989 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

pjanzen · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

I believe that just calling these "10 philosophies to live by" would be better than calling them "commandments".
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louiswin2 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

Steve Dowell over at Positive Deism has the best quote I have ever seen regarding this subject.

"Reason and Respect in all you think, say and do".

tonyman1989 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject:

same here.
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transientangent · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject:

Number 4 conflicts with the first 3. The first three give you ethical rules and number 4 tells you not to bother with them anyways.

I'd also like to see some arguments regarding why these are ideal conventions.
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pjanzen · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject:

BobSpence1 · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:

tonyman1989 · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

I found these and thought they more detailed.

http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/ten_commandments.html
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BobSpence1 · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

It certainly is not difficult to improve on the traditionally quoted Ten Commandments, let alone the ones actually referred to in the Bible as the "Ten Commandments" (Exodus 34), which were alleged to be the same as on the first set of tablets, which were broken, and which were actually almost completely different, and were all purely ritualistic requirements, like "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.".

When the classic set does not include admonishments against things like rape and torture, and does include trivialities like "not coveting your neighbour's wife etc", they deserve to be treated as a sick joke.
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