a rebuttal to de Botton's commandments for atheists

Alain de Botton wrote up 10 Commandments of Atheism, which sort of rubbed me the wrong way so I wrote up a counter point on what I thought would be a better approach to the idea of secular virtues. And if you are interested in the facebook conversation or the reddit conversation (if one emerges) I've linked to those as well.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/the-10-commandments-for-atheis...

http://metabelief.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-alternative-to-de-bottons...

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/180xcg/metabelief_my_alter...

http://www.facebook.com/groups/bostonatheists/

Tags: Botton, commandments, de, ethics, virtues

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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on February 6, 2013 at 5:49pm

Hitchens has a revision of them too.

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Permalink Reply by josiah vanvliet on February 6, 2013 at 5:59pm

It's quite good, but I just cant get over how little the British seem to care about how they look on camera.

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