(August 31, 2012 at 9:44 pm)Atom Wrote:I read from this that you agree that it is of no use. If there is no difference in performance, then I take it you are in it for the salvation. Good luck with that.(August 31, 2012 at 9:07 pm)Boccaccio Wrote: If "getting their ideas from religion" (implicitly, christian) were remotely true then there would be no morality outside early christianity while christians and their antecedents would be moral exemplars compared with other peoples of the time.It isn't good form to quote scripture on this forum, but I think the reasoning for this occasion will be not be disagreeable. What you are saying isn't true is because being Christian doesn't make a person's moral conduct automatically better. Here is what Paul said about himself in Romans 7:19.
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing
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