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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Blue On Black who wrote (3786)	12/2/2000 11:26:38 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 28931

If we insist on a morality....would not Do right be adequate? "Do right" begs the question. Some would say the Golden Rule would be a better shorthand for morality. But it does have its exceptional cases (like a masochist). The Egyptians had 42 commandments, published in their holy scriptures, "The Book of the Dead". A more accurate translation of the title is "Coming Forth into the Day". This is dated about 1600 B.C. When an Egyptian died, his ba (soul) went to a place of judgement, where his heart was weighed on a scale to see if he would go to heaven or be destroyed. He was expected to recite the 42 evil deeds and claim that he had committed none of them. The list of 42 contains all the familiar Judeo 10 commandments, and then some. I don't want to type the whole list here, but it is interesting that it also contains moral judgements tied to the cultural environment, such as "Thou shalt not foul water". I guess nobody that uses a modern toilet can be saved.