My position is and always has been:
I am intelligent enough to understand what the pelople of a community need from each other in order to live in harmony.
If I choose to live as an adulterer, there will be consequences I would rathet avoid.
If I trespass against my neighbor, there will be.............................
If choose to live as a theif, a drunk, an addict, an abuser of women or children, there will be consequences..................................
Any semi intelligent human should be able to sit down and invent the ten commandments with no prior knowledge. He/she should need no help figuring out how society SHOULD be run.
I find it surprising that some would claim morals can only come from God. When such rules should be self evident to any with an IQ over 85.
Those are my thoughts. I know that many do not agree and of course, that is okay with me. Many of my most beloved are deeply religious. I love/ did love (some are departed) them dearly.
That still does not mean I think they were not mistaken.
One need not share nor hypocritically profess a belief in God to be a true conservative in every sense of the word. Consevative does not necessitate Consevative Christian.
If you choose to be an atheist, be an atheist. I don't understand why you feel the need to proclaim it and disrespect those who disagree with you on the matter.
