I don't agree because for me it is not a matter of choice. It is not that I choose not to accept anything else: I simply can't. I can give it lip service but no more.You don't agree because that is how it is for you, and you choose to, and/or not. to accept anything else.
I could certainly be brainwashed to accepting and believing something else, but that would again not be a choice as I would end up believing whatever I was brainwashed into thinking.
But hey, if you know me so well as to be know how my mind works, feel free to say so and I'll just let you get on talking to yourself, okay? Otherwise please refrain from claiming to know the mind of others. Discuss what they say, not what you think they say or why you think they are saying it. Can you do that?
I am glad that such things are so easy for you, and that you see them as a simple matter of choice. For me they are not. But I look forward to you choosing to be an atheist in more than simple lip service. You honestly and genuinely think you could do that?One can change ones mind directly by suppressing natural instincts, and latch on to what they may consider the positive points of their preferred position. Eventually one can forget the original instinct.
Where did I say that it was easy? Maybe you confuse the maxim being a simple linguistic construct with the practical application of that maxim being simple?Intentionally doing no harm isn't s simple as you seem to think.
So you believe.Plus I agree that it does not require you to affirm belief in God, as for the reasons. It is because of God we are able to ascend to such heights.
And as soon as you don't accept God you will become aware of it not being there. Hey ho. And so the circles begin.That is foundational principal. Once you accept God, you become aware of it. Of course if one doesn't accept God, then ones foundational priniciples will facilitate a different route, according to the individiual
This is certainly one version of what it means to be honourable. There are others.If you don't accept God, you are still aware of such virtues as do no harm, which goes as far as you are prepared to accept. The highest being 'do unto others as you would have them do to yourself'. This is based on intelligence. To be honourable is to embrace this intelligence. Most people use this intelligence to some degree or other.
Ultimately it rests with the individual. The individual is far more complex than what he or she projects.
But to return to baldeee's point: of what value is the command from God to "Be Honorable" when it is done anyway.
Are religious people only honourable because of that command?