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Religion / Book for Sunday School teachers | | English term or phrase: for themselves | Playing god ourselves. Before the children begin to feel contempt for primitive religions and contemporary false religions, help them see that to believe in no God at all is just as bad. Instead of recognising a Person and power above and beyond them, atheists depend upon themselves. They live to please and enjoy themselves and so they become their own gods, deciding what is right and wrong ***for themselves***.
What is the sense here: they decide what is right or wrong for themselves to do, or they (themselves) decide what is right and wrong in general? |
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| | English translation:on their own, i.e., not by someone else | Explanation:
They decide on their own what is right or wrong, instead of having a (Christian) god decide for them.
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Note added at 10 mins (2009-12-10 09:48:03 GMT)
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Example: The Christian god says that it is wrong to be envious. An atheist could decide (on their own) whether being envious is right or wrong. |
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Derek Gill Franßen
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7 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +8 on their own, i.e., not by someone else
Explanation:
They decide on their own what is right or wrong, instead of having a (Christian) god decide for them.
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Note added at 10 mins (2009-12-10 09:48:03 GMT)
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Example: The Christian god says that it is wrong to be envious. An atheist could decide (on their own) whether being envious is right or wrong.
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