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(7,981 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:15 PM Feb 2013

Alain de Botton publishes ten commandments for atheists

Writer Alain de Botton has created a set of ten commandments for non-believers that also includes virtues such as hope and sacrifice.

The author wrote his Manifesto For Atheists because being virtuous had become ‘a strange and depressing notion’, while evil had a ‘peculiar kind of glamour’.

He said: ‘It reminds us that we all need to work at being good, just as we work at anything else that really matters.’

The 10 commandments for atheists are:

http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/04/alain-de-botton-publishes-ten-commandments-for-atheists-3379657/