Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
OC it is written, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Against such things, there is no law...(Galatians 5.22-24.)

Not one mention of God in there OC, but if we could embrace the idea that love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control are virtues we could all accept and live by them, what a better existence we would all have.
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From the atheists
As a general rule that when religionists practice ethical behavior, it isn’t really due to their fear of hell-fire and damnation, nor is it due to their hopes of heaven.
Ethical behavior – regardless of who the practitioner may be – results always from the same causes and is regulated by the same forces, and has nothing to do with the presence or absence of religious belief.