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"Also, be careful to not co-opt moral standards of "right" and "wrong" when they only have any intrinsic worth within the context of a worldview you would deny."
Copting moral standards ?
Where the hell do you get off claiming that just because you believe in one particular superstition that I do not, that this entitles you to 'own' morality ?
I am perfectly capable of examining the questions of morality and drawing my conclusions about what is right and wrong, drawn broadly along the principals of not doing something to someone that I would like to have done to me, without fooling myself and others that I believe in an unseen unprovable unevidential 'force', thank you very much.
If you're only ability to discern how you and other people should behave towards each other is the alleged 'divine' source of some perfectly and utterly 'common' sense guidelines drawn up by nomadic palestians, then Im afraid, sir, you are entirely lost in an increasingly complex world populated by a growing number of people who actually have the balls to take the responsibility for examining themselves and their behavior for themselves, and who do not submit their powers of reason and responsibility to someone else...
If the Israelites and the thousands of generations of their forebears had not done this, and worked out how we should all behave, there wouldnt have been anyone on the mount to received this so-called divine revelation of the commandments...
"Oh, it says thou shalt not kill - hadnt thought of that one, good, good - and adultery is bad you say ? Well, I guess it is, yes...stealing too ? It all makes sense now - ok - everyone who hasnt been killed, please return all the stuff you have stolen, and try to stay faithful, please - oh how much better life will be with these previously unfathomable concepts....".