“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
You don't need religion to think think that stealing and murdering are bad. The idea that religion has the morality market cornered is a strange myth.
It's like quote from Penn Jilllete of Penn and teller fame, "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? What Stops me from murdering people? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine."
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“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Ah, but by this rationale, how is eternal damnation ever possibly justified? However long you lived on earth as the most evil person alive, how would those decades balance against billions of years of torment?
Eternal Hell is obviously the worst threat ever, but it only makes sense in an unjust universe.
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
Because God can't look upon sin. (How you square this with omnipotence I don't know. But contradictions abound in religion.)
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