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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael M who wrote (69817)1/1/2000 3:43:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
IT is NOT true that the only religious group scorned on this thread is Christian. I (personally) scorn all organized forms of worship, and have said so numerous times (Muslim, Hindu, whatever)- even my own- Unitarian, which isn't much of a worship since most of the congregation seems to be atheist. In fact I scorn almost all aggregates of humanity- humans by themselves are almost always preferable to humans in groups. Scorn is actually not the right word- I suspect all aggregates of humanity to be capable of persecution, and since history is full of examples I feel comfortable with that position and that suspicion makes me dislike the aggregates and dogmatic believers in the aggregates.

I feel that way about all religions, all governmental bodies, all institutions public and private- an individual alone usually has a conscience, a group doesn't (imo). I will always prefer the individual.

I am of the opinion that the most moral man is the man who can have empathy for other creatures and other men without the fear of a Deities reprisal, or be "good" because the tantalizing carrot of an afterlife is dangled before his nose. I can't imagine a more estimable creature than a man that does as little harm as possible merely because he sees that as a rational path.
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