Re: virus: No God

Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:09:46 -0600


Patricell@aol.com wrote:
>
> Wow, I really want to be an Atheism. Now I don't have follow no stupid laws. I
> can steal from people and not have to work. I can kill somebody that I can't
> stand. Wow this is real neat.

It is my personal belief that one cannot be truly moral with a belief
in god. As living creatures we have two choices: life and death. In
order to stay alive what must mankind do? Mankind lives by thinking.
Thinking is not enhanced by killing innocents or stealing from them and
most certainly is not enhanced by faith. I can progress much further in
life by honest trade than by brute force. It is simply the most rational
way to act for my own benefit. However if I live with faith A and you
live with faith B we have no way to reconcile our differences save
through force and that is just what has happened in the history of
religious beliefs: endless pointless fighting. (Except for pagans who
allowed for plenty of room for more gods) A morality of the mind, based
on the life of thinking creatures ,such as men , is best served when
people are free to think for themselves and come to their own
conclusions!

Nate Hall