On Dec 7, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Dec 7, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Interesting analyses of the Decalogue from many PsOV:
<http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10co.htm>
Thanks, Warren.
:D
I think sometimes that there is a feeling among those with faith that atheists are underinformed or don't know what they're turning away from, or why, etc. Also that an atheist regards religious teachings as worthless. I don't; I consider them as worthy of consideration as any philosophical proposition. And I do have a clue what it is I've lain aside, and not just in terms of Christian faiths.
I'll add this one, from a source that I suspect most Christians wouldn't turn to, but hey, I'm not most Christians:
"Which Ten Commandments?" From Positive Atheism:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
I hadn't seen that one before. The PDF is interesting but only seems to suggest, mostly, that there are multiple interpretations of Abrahamic teachings. Well, now that I think about it, maybe that's news to many. (My mother used to think until a few years ago that the canonical gospels were authored by contemporaries of Jesus -- that is, more or less eyewitness accounts written in his lifetime or shortly soon after. This is probably not an atypical view in the US. And probably one reason why so many seem to take religious teaching so seriously.)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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