If you’re atheist why do you subscribe to the tenets of wisdom contained in the Law of Moses?

Many go about life asserting their atheism and yet they obey the rules contained in the Ten Commandments and they don’t steal or murder, and they care for their parents (if not physically at least mentally). Should they be more lawless or more selfish because they don’t have the keen directive power those Commandments have in effect enshrined in human societal existence? Why is humility looked on as being more about wisdom than about being gullible or permissible?

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BlueSkyKing · M

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Lonar2 · 26-30, F

@BlueSkyKing That’s a mouthful!

BlueSkyKing · M

@Lonar2 Slavery and women being second class is part of that law.

PenguinPuncher33 · 36-40, MVIP

I don’t like when people steal from me so why would I steal from someone else? Logical doesn’t need the bible

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

Did you need someone to tell you not to kill people?

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