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User:W.F. Tucker/Boys' Life/April 1911

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The Chaplain's Talk: Cultivate the Best Companions[edit]

This article talks about how "you are the company you are with, so don't have bad friends." Not really a bad moral, but the essay puts God on a pedestal once.

Boys' Life:RationalWiki:
Take my advice, and remember that it does not matter one little bit what the other boy thinks, but it matters a great deal what God thinks.First of all, God doesn't exist, so He can't think, so it's safe to assume that it matters about as much what God "thinks" as what a rock "thinks." Secondly, even assuming the existence of the Christian God, it would be nonsensical to make Him your greatest moral example, after He literally committed several mass genocides, celebrated slavery and war, and ordered the brutal murder of what adds up to billions more people across the globe, all in his own Holy Book.