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Originally posted by Shine
After I sign off, I'm going to go pick a random book off the shelf and use it as my guidebook and moral code. That should be fun.
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Chances are 50/50 that it would be more consistent. Even if it was Green Eggs and Ham. I can see the revised commandments now...
"Thou shalt not eat it with a fox.....
Thou shalt not eat it in a box......"
Sorry but I went to Catholic School for too many years to take organized religion seriously.
To all those who would argue that America was based on some sort of moral standard, I think you would be hard pressed to prove that people in the past were any better at adhering to said morals than in the modern day and age where we choose to follow ethics instead. Morals didn't stop slavery (money did, regardless of what our history books tell us). Morals didn't prevent Jim Crow. Morals didn't keep the US from putting Japanese-Americans in what amounted to concentration camps. All "morals" do is provide fodder for hypocrites.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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