Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age

Re:Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age by k-mcgrady on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:10AM (#8990709)

>> "The thing is you don't have to decide there isn't a God, you don't have to change your religion at all, if you have any, to be a good person."

Of course. My comment was made as someone who 'doesn't know' but leans towards theism. And you certainly don't need religion to be a good person but as with any writings/teachings there can be value there. For example some people find the guidance of the writings by the Stoics useful. If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it. Would it be useful in a similar way to the writings of the Stoics for example?

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Re:Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age by VLM on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:11AM (#8991111)

>> "If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

Thomas Jefferson. Yeah... that Thomas Jefferson... not just some random dude with a common name.

There is a propaganda campaign to convince people that americans were united as hard core puritan evang neocon christians continuously from the earliest days until a very recent fall like when the Beatles arrived, but that fantasy has nothing to do with reality, of course.

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