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The Atheist's Ten Commandments

I was first made aware of this by a Roman Catholic and Tea party blogger. It’s an interesting combination, since an elderly lady in the neighborhood subscribes to the same combination. Anyway!

Some news articles:

Behold: The atheist Ten Commandments
Adorable Atheists Feel Compelled To Ape Religion With New Ten Commandments
Atheists Publish Secular ‘10 Commandments’ List in Book Following Global Contest
[]The New Ten Commandments](http://is.gd/5Fc5N7)

The book:

Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century

The commandments:

Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.
Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you wish to be true.
The scientific method is the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.
Every person has the right to control over their body.
God is not necessary to be a good person or to live a full and meaningful life.
Be mindful of the consequences of all your actions and recognize that you must take responsibility for them.
Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective.
We have the responsibility to consider others, including future generations.
There is no one right way to live.
Leave the world a better place than you found it.

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Imagine including that in a list of commandments/principles

Author Eric Metaxas wrote “On Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”, for The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 25 edition. Here’s some tidbits from the article, that atheists can digest:

Great article, Randy. Thanks!

I wrote an article not-much-disagreeing with a proposed “Humanist Manifesto” back near Easter 2012 at the Cadre Journal; and my fellow Cadrist Bill Kesatie wrote a similar article last November 2013 on a proposed Humanist 10 Commandments.

As Jonny noted with entirely appropriate humor above, one of the seriously self-contradicting features secular humanists tend to put in such lists is the idea that “there is no one right way to live” or words to that effect.

I lampooned that with a satire on the 3rd edition of the Humanist Manifest back in 2009 (“Humanism And Its Aspirations (subject to change)”); and then with a followup using the novel and movie Wolfen as a comparison later that Thanksgiving (“Wolfenism And Its Aspirations! (probably not subject to change)”. Plus a belated half-follow-up several years later on how, if we absolutely must talk about accepting a philosophy based on arguments from social utility, which philosophy after all will be most coherent with that goal in principle? The idea that the single most fundamental reality essentially is a socio-cultural utility, with multiple persons being kind to one another? Or any idea that the single most fundamental reality essentially is anything other than a socio-cultural utility? ()"Duh.)

So yay, more articles to read. :mrgreen:

This is related but there are atheist churches as well. usatoday.com/story/news/nati … s/3489967/
This just goes to show that how ‘church’ mentality is inherent in humans.

Yeah, they have their little ten commandments, their churches, and the supreme court of the USA recognizes them as a religious group, but DON’T tell them that atheism is a religion!!! :laughing: