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RE: Where are the Morals?
September 14, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Here's a few religious rules that have been abolished by secular society.
Islam
A man can't beat his wife even if he fears rebellion from her.
A person who has sex outside of marriage isn't lashed 100 times in front of a crowd of Muslims.
Amputating the hands of a thief is no longer allowed
Confining women who partake in sex acts against Islamic law to a house until they die isn't a law people abide by these days.
Christianity
I won't even bother going into detail, the bible basically says stone everyone to death, rape victims in certain circumstances have to marry the person who raped them, to be honest there's no point in even focusing in the bible it's just laughable.
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RE: Where are the Morals?
September 17, 2014 at 6:43 am
I don't like how the topic tries to imply religion is the source of human ethics, which is completelly wrong.
Human ethics are actually biological constructions, in which everyone has the tendency to fluctuate on those pattern of behaviour, because they are socially advantageous and desirable, not because it is written in some book that one must obey, people that don't "follow" these common ethics are actually regarded as suffering psycho-social disorders.
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RE: Where are the Morals?
September 24, 2014 at 6:00 am
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Quote:In the article I will discuss, why an atheist who adopted a moral way of living is more vulnerable to immorality compared to a religious person.
LOL. I stopped reading here. What is a religious person? A follower of Yahweh? Of Mohamet?
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RE: Where are the Morals?
September 24, 2014 at 8:12 am
I find it rather amusing that Harris' religious views are "logical", but in his last post he says
Quote:Without faith in God, there can be no conscience
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RE: Where are the Morals?
September 24, 2014 at 8:13 am
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Yeah, one of those people for whom god is the thin line between himself and sodomizing a toddler, or so he would have us believe. Hell, he's got me convinced on that count...who am I to tell him that his self assessment is in error?
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