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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the way, you know that atheists still have morals and values, right? That do unto others and love thy neighbor and honor thy father and mother are not "Christian" or religious values?[/quote]

Actually, they sort of are. Before the Ten Commandments, there wasn't a lot of that going on. The notions have been secularized, but they're rooted in religion.

My own belief is that the Bible is actually a handbook for civility that was written with the stories about God to capture imaginations. Much of the Jewish dietary laws, for example, look like a way to communicate basic food hygeine. The Ten Commandments largely are just common sense guidelines for civility, etc.

So, secular humanism may not be God-based but its principles are certainly derived from religious teachings.[/quote]

You have it totally backwards. All religions derive their moral codes, on social norms of the times. They're based on society, not some kind of deity (and all religions borrow from each other - so much of the Abrahamic religions are rooted in Sumerian and Mesopotamian ideologies)[/quote]

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