Replies to post #52481 on Simply Politics & News (GOV)

[Paule]

Yes and no..


Today’s laws are based on the Ten Commandments. We hardly live in a theocracy.

If we have no absolute line of morality to start from, then how do we start? Where do we go from there? Atheist code of ethics? On what grounds do we consider these ethics moral?


So you tell me...


Paule Walnuts

[PegnVA]

"...and lay down rules based on THEIR interpretation of god?" - we see that happening today with the strong backing from the conserv religious right wing. It's good when the US does it -- It's bad when the Taliban does it.