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The Proverbs for Atheists

The Proverbs is the most masculine work of literature ever written. Unlike the New Testament, Proverbs can be read not a book on morality, but as a book on wisdom. The Proverbs preach much more than the destructiveness that comes when one is separated from God. It's a highly practical book of wisdom, and if atheists were not so bigoted, it would be widely read. Here, for example, is a great line about why one should not sleep with a married woman: "For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man?s wife preys on your very life."  Proverbs 6.  There is no moral lecture.  The writer did not say it's wrong to have sex with another man's wife.  The writer said it's dangerous: Can a man scoop fire into his lapwithout his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man?s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).