"An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist accepts that heaven is something for which we should work now -- here on earth -- for all men together to enjoy."
Quote from - The American Atheists Website
FOOTNOTE FOR BOTH THEISTS AND ATHEISTS
"They have not known, and they do not understand; In darkness they keep walking about;
All the foundations of the earth are made to totter. I myself have said, 'You are gods, And all of you are sons of the Most High."
Psalms 82:5
FINALLY.. to sum up..
"Surely we could love each other as we love ourselves...
That's the main thing, isn't it?
That's it, nothing else...
Absolutely nothing else is necessary...
Do that and the way forward is clear, isn't it?
Well.... isn't it?
Alright, so its nothing but an old truth, repeated, said billions of times; but why hasn't it taken root then?
If only we all wanted it!
Then everything could begin again.
Oh yes, and when I find the little girl, and I shall find her.
Then I can begin."
Extract from...
By Fyodor Dostoyevski
"The men who discovered for us the Law of Love were greater scientists than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for every one to see all its working.
Such, at any rate, is the hallucination, if it is one, under which I am laboring. The more I work at this law the more I feel the delight in life, the delight in the scheme of this universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe." - Gandhi
"Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things." - Lao Tzu
"There is especially the rule of doing to others what you would have others do to you, and refraining from doing to others what you would not have others do to you.
You will say to yourselves: "Here I am, fond of life and not wanting to die, fond of pleasure and averse to pain. If anyone should attempt to take my life from me, or inflict pain upon me, that would not be pleasing to me, and if I were to rob someone else of life, or inflict pain, that likewise would not be pleasing to him."
The Buddha
"You must not take vengeance nor have a grudge against the sons of your people; and you must love your fellow as yourself." - Moses - Leviticus 19:18
"All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean." - Jesus - Matthew 7:12
"For the entire Law stands fulfilled in one saying, namely: "You must love your neighbour as yourself." If, though, you keep on biting and devouring one another, look out that you do not get annihilated by one another." - Paul - Galatians 5:14
"When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius
