Quote from: CoinCube on December 10, 2018, 10:49:05 PM

Quote from: af_newbie on December 10, 2018, 09:40:29 PM

You are a good person if you follow the moral code that your society accepts.

You don't need a Bronze Age boogeyman.

Let's see so according to your logic:

The Soviet Gestapo who forceably resettled presents to collective farms in 1932 leading to the starvation of 8 million were swell folks because they were following the Soviet code.

The Nazi's guards who starved and gassed millions were great guys too because Hitler was elected and widely admired and supported by the German People.

According to you these folks were paragons of virtue following the moral code their societies accepted at the time.

Similarly if you can get a majority to support your desired re-education camps and book burnings that will be great too. I think I understand you better now.

Here is a short video that describes your fundamental problem. You have rejected God, and without God one can no longer properly define good and evil.
Can You Be Good Without God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxiAikEk2vU

Dictatorial regimes don't follow moral codes. Are you new here on Earth? Your Bible did not save Christians or Jews who were killed in Auschwitz, nor it prevented Christians from killing other Christians or Jews.

Are you sure you thought your examples through?

I am all for progress, for what is best for all people and society as a whole. That includes gays, lesbians, women, unlike your Bronze Age God.

You think the Bible will save you from a dictatorship? You are confusing your delusional religious beliefs with political systems.

You can have a secular, democratic system with check and balances to prevent the sort of brutal regimes you are thinking about.

Trust me, you don't want to go down the route of a moral system driving a political system based on a Bronze Age scripture.
You'll be killing gays and adulterers sooner rather than later.

Judeo-Christian ideology is no different than other inhumane ideologies. Nazism and Communism included.
Any political system lead by people who believe in supernatural magic is a recipe for disaster. Delusional people should not be near the nuclear codes.

I did not reject God. There is nothing to reject. Why can't you get this through your head is beyond me?