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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (41115)	6/20/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

"Well, where are you going to find any moral compass if you reject the ten commandments? " It is much easier to find a moral compass than you might think without the ten commandments. Anyone who needs a commandment to prevent them from committing adultery doesn't have a very good grasp on relationships, and how they die. I realize there are people, who for whatever reason, need an outside authority to tell them what to do. But I wish you could see that THESE people are the people one needs to be afraid of- because they will take whatever outside force they latch on to- Lenin, Hitler, God, Moonies- whatever, and they will follow uncritically, and do horrible things as a group with no compunction, because individual thought was surrendered from the start. A real critical thinker is not a very frightening individual. I do not think I've ever heard of humanists or agnostics burning books, or lynching people, or doing any of the horrible things believers do. And I have no idea what you think "God principals are" but since religious fanatics do all sorts of horrible inhumane things, I believe God principles must not be moral, per se. As with everything else it depends on who is interpreting them. I consider the surrender of the little gray cells the highest immorality.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (41115)	6/20/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I wish you would post some facts to support your position that parents fail to teach morality in the home. I'd love to see some statistics, or studies. I interact with many young children, and I think you are wrong, but I don't have statistics, either, just personal experience.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (41115)	6/20/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>>>>Well, where are you going to find any moral compass if you reject the ten commandments?<<<<< Do you honestly not know that there are moral people all over the world who do not believe in the Ten Commandments, per se, because they are neither Christian nor Jew?