http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/11/11/tract-50-do-atheists-want-freedom-from-responsibility/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Thu, 23 May 2013 10:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/11/11/tract-50-do-atheists-want-freedom-from-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-987 CulturalIconography Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:36:57 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1384#comment-987 And of course there’s always the observation that there were any number of moral systems which predated (in some cases by centuries or longer) the Judeo-Christian one. Confucianism springs to mind, if for no other reason than he articulated the so-called “Golden Rule” long before Jesus supposedly did. It seems as if prominent fundamentalist Christians think that history only begins with the Old Testament of the King James Bible. Of course, I guess in a way they do if they are Young Earth Creationists…but don’t get me started on that one.

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