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To: Alex Murphy

In The Ten Commandments, she approvingly quotes Dostoyevsky: “Where there is no God, all is permitted.”
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However in Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky punishes the student for murdering the old woman...

he thinks he has license to kill, but he does repent in the end..


7 posted on 11/15/2008 7:15:36 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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I’m an atheist. I figure I have built in morality. Most people follow the golden rule, right?

And in the final measure, I believe in one fewer gods than Christians do.


8 posted on 11/15/2008 7:25:47 AM PST by soroptimist (I don't know why ya come here, I don't know what you want from me. Everybody says you use me.)
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