Anonymous
@no-money, when I talk of rule of law based on fear, I am not talking of human laws but what believes think are god’s laws. The 10 Commandments are mostly basic rules that are enforced by fear of an afterlife punishment or, in the more modern form, by the lack of the reward of living eternally in the presence of god.
I am not going to try to change your mind because you’re free to think whatever you want, but I just want to make you understand that people who are not religious or do not believe in god, find your statement that morality comes from religion offensive because it implies that they are not moral. I think of myself as a moral person and act as such. I find my moral values within myself and observing other people behavior not from a book. I could use the same word you used to define leftist ideologies for religions, but I do not. I am not thinking of myself as someone who is above others nor I think that my thoughts and ideas are more worthy then others’ thoughts and ideas.