I find it hard to believe all laws in a first world nation can find their origin in the bible. I won't deny similarities for plenty and inspiration for some, but if the bible truly were the begin all end all of law we'd be doing the dark ages bit.
I've lived near fundamentalists all my life, and have come to the conclusion the majority of christians are assholes and morons, but I know this isn't true of all cases. Sometimes their interpretation of the bible allows them to be decent, and possibly exemplary people.
You know, its kind of like those inspirational speakers: Against all odds, raised a christian; Not a self-righteous hypocritical bastard! It warms the heart.
Note: I say this knowing full well plenty of decent christians. My disdain for the belief system stems from its history of absurd prejudice. I just try not to allow my disdain to turn to prejudice.
Alcar, believing in both destiny and fate is quite nice, and fatalistic, though I wouldn't say that's a bad thing. But then the question becomes: Does free will exist? (You must've known someone would mention it). Besides, if you're a decent person, do you really have to believe in a particular god? Why not worship nature or the heavens; why not get all hindu with it and say everything is god? (Its called absolute reality or something of that kin) I would say that's probably about as close as it gets. Having made my point I'll say that I'm only this side of atheism, an that just because I have a really really REALLY loose definition of "god".
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