--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Still riffing on this, I think that many people's issue > > with an eternal universe is not that it postulates No God > > (although that pushes a LOT of buttons because "It just > > isn't *done* to question God's existence"), but because > > it implies No Purpose. > > Yes, that, I'm sure. But what about "Justice"? Thinking > out loud here, but... > > Just as you could scarcely claim a difference between > an English football fan and a drunk...
LOL. > ...it seems there > might similarly be little difference between, say, a > Buddhist and an atheist. Actually, in terms of ethics there is sometimes little difference. Many of the atheists I've met who label themselves *as* atheists have a remarkably similar definition of ethics to many of the Buddhists I've met. That is, that ethics come from within. A belief or non-belief in God does not change that. In both cases the people choose to live ethically for the simple reason that it matters to *them*, not to some supposedly all-seeing Daddy or some omni- present and equally watchful set of Laws Of Nature. It's the same notion as "Doing A Good Job Is More Fun Than Doing A Shitty Job." :-)
