Atheists: What do you think of...?

I think that a lot of Jesus's teachings were very ethical. It was his followers that screwed it up.

the 10 commandments might as well just be called the 3 commandments, because christians can only remember the ones about killing, lying and stealing. what do I think of them? I think apart from those obvious 3 that even a 1 year old could figure out not to do, I find the 10 commandments ridiculous and evil

the teachings of jesus were meaningless - loving our enemies is literally a meaningless request based on the definitions of those terms.

What can possibly be moral in stealing them form much earlier religions where they related to other gods and an idol?

Then ask yourself what possible use they have when they added the "Ask forgiveness and get a clean sheet" clause?!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime whilst year on year government figures show atheists make up only 2% of the prison population!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it‽

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

The Ten Commandments are not originally from the biblical gods doing... The Ten Commandments were a list of commandments inspired by the commandments given in the Egyptain Book of the Dead. As far as morals are concerned - how are we to conceive of the bibles literature as morally sane when it clearly demonstrates murders carried out and ordered by god against innocent children, carries out the practice of misogynistic behavior and also uses the threat of eternal hell etc.?

NT: Good-guy Jesus starts out with good intentions to spread good will and to preach peace. Then he joins a traveling circus who perform "miracles" and collect money, and use Him as a keynote speaker. His rocketing notoriety eventually makes Him a little egotistical and the authorities bust Him. His circus-mates continue to bankroll on His fame, even after His death.

"I love it when a plan comes together."

Commandments -- Half of them are irrelevant, the other half are common sense.

(see George Carlin's commentary -- http://youtu.be/CE8ooMBIyC8)

Jesus is pretty decent, as far as I'm concerned (in regards to moral teachings). Not unique, but highly admirable.

the ten commandments are a reflection of what early civilized people valued as necessary to live in close proximity to each other

Superstitious nonsense making mention of a coupla bits of common sense...

Every family, gang, tribe, nation, has rules of behaviour; every group of people develops rules.

It starts in the home; you wouldn't spit on your mother's bed would you?

Were you told specifically not to or did you just work it out?

Surely it's not mentioned in bibel, huh?

You can bet the first law when families first started living with other families was, “Touch me or my stuff and I’ll kill you”.

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That they are reflective of the culture of the ancient Middle East, and vary from stating the obvious to completely absurd.

Primitive men attempting to speak for the imaginary god in their mind. It's unfortunate that we have adults with the mind of a child that lead this on as truth.

It can be narrowed down to two, obvious morals that people already lived by.