Re: OT: Bind yourself and free yourself

qqq123@xxxxx wrote:
This is comforting,

"
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of
punishment and hope of reward after death.


My scruffy uncle has this to say:

"What I believe is that, intrinsically, there are moral people. And
those moral people have, for reason or another, taken up the church,
whether they're Wilberforce or whatever. If Wilberforce was only driven
by his religious impulses, then somehow I think it would devalue what
he did. For me. That's personally. I believe that you can take on a
moral stance - and plenty of people do - without reference to, as
it were, a series of precepts." ~ Griff Rhys Jones, a "celebrity
atheist".

~Iain

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