May 28, 2007

How does not being greedy, a killer, a liar, a thief and an unkind person make me an atheist and not a believer in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, when the Holy Scriptures are the bases in human civilization whereby we have been taught not to do these things? Skewed, baby.

Being moral doesn't make you an atheist any more than it makes you a theist. And being a theist or atheist does not make you moral. I would hope, though, that both religious and non-religious people would do their best to be moral individuals.

I also must quibble with your implication that Judeo-Christianity is the bases of moral human civilization. There are plenty of moral people and societies without Judeo-Christian roots.

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