They are called the 10 Commandments. Check them out. What good is morality if it's only based on your own reason? That sounds pretty arbitrary to me.
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We use our reason because it is better than following the guidance of a bum who lived 2000 years ago .
We are alive today and the people that wrote the bible are not . I ask you who has a better perspective on how we should live our lives today , ill answer it for you ,WE DO ! Use your own reason and you will see .
Following an arbitrary set of rules, simply because you believe you'll be rewarded if you do, or punished if you don't, is not morality. Trying to dictate how other people live their lives, when the way they want to live won't hurt anyone is, in fact, immoral.
Being kind to people and helping each other out because we want to, this is true morality. Letting others do what they want to do, as long as they're not hurting anyone, this is morality.
Your sense of "morality" is pure barbarism, plain and simple. Stop blindly following your church, and learn how to think for yourself, for a change. You, too, may see what we see, and realize just how lost you currently are.
The ten commadments contain three cultural laws (thou shall not lie, steal or kill) that have existed in every society thousands of years preceeding your Bible, existing in print in many societies a thousand years before your Bible.
The remaining seven are Christian demands and don't exist in any free countries laws to this day, and certainly have little bearing on the morality of mankind
Most irreligious people have reasoned out the same morality. I phrase it like this: "Maximize pleasure and minimize pain, for you and for others, for now and for the future." So, if we most all of us come to the same conclusion, and we all do pretty well with it, doesn't that tell you something?
"Check them out."
I did.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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