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Biblical Morality
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How inline with the bible is your morality?
http://www.gotoquiz.com/do_you_have_biblical_morals I got 0%
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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lol ... Excellent Post ...
I got o% too shockingly ... Sam
"We need not suppose more things to exist than are absolutely neccesary." William of Occam
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure: Act 1, Scene 4)  
It's not bad, there's a similar one at the ffrf site, or you could check out the MoralMaster 2.0 Morality Monitor
Happiness is all that's important. What makes me happiest is making my loved ones happy.
0%, as expected.
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H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
LOL @ that quiz
  Wanting to see a poll that could actually give some figures on the difference between morals of the religious and non religious. They'd both be pretty identical IMHO.  RE: Biblical Morality
March 1, 2009 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2009 at 11:20 am by LukeMC.)
(March 1, 2009 at 11:05 am)fr0d0 Wrote: LOL @ that quiz In 9 out of 10 cases you're probably right. Our moral views come from a mixture of instinctual concepts and society-built ideals. Therefore, religious people accept these ideals and look for verses in scripture which agree with them, while systematically ignoring all contradictory verses. There's not much moral difference between us, unless you get onto topical arguments such a gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia.
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe (March 1, 2009 at 11:20 am)LukeMC Wrote: In 9 out of 10 cases you're probably right. Our moral views come from a mixture of instinctual concepts and society-built ideals. Therefore, religious people accept these ideals and look for verses in scripture which agree with them, while systematically ignoring all contradictory verses. There's not much moral difference between us, unless you get onto topical arguments such a gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia.I think you could find good evolutionary reasons why the moral standards exist in bother 'realms'. Personally I can't see any contradictory verses, and I don't think puritanism is exclusive to some religious types. (March 1, 2009 at 11:30 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I think you could find good evolutionary reasons why the moral standards exist in bother 'realms'. Personally I can't see any contradictory verses, and I don't think puritanism is exclusive to some religious types. ...Did you look hard enough for those contradictory verses? http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html Enjoy all the contradictions. As for morality evolving, I agree. But we had to drag Christianity kicking and screaming with us. Just consider slavery. When we wanted to abolish it in America those supporting slavery had to look no further than their holy book. At the end of the day, you can pick and chose whatever bible versus to support your view of morality. I don't deny there are nice versus mixed in with the slavery, murder, rape, incest, genocide, etc... But I refuse to even consider a book that claims absolute morality and absolute truth when it says "love thy neighbor" in one breath and then in the next is ready to condemn people to hell, an infinite punishment for finite crimes, especially when a qualification for that is simply not believing.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe (March 1, 2009 at 11:58 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: ...Did you look hard enough for those contradictory verses?I've seen those naive statements yes I haven't seen any that hold water. (March 1, 2009 at 11:58 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: As for morality evolving, I agree. But we had to drag Christianity kicking and screaming with us. Just consider slavery. When we wanted to abolish it in America those supporting slavery had to look no further than their holy book.The opposite is also true. Wilberforce was quite an influence I believe. (March 1, 2009 at 11:58 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: At the end of the day, you can pick and chose whatever bible versus to support your view of morality.Without guidance, or intellect, possibly.
And of course you ignored my statement that the bible has slavery, murder, rape, incest, and genocide. We, or at least most of us, seem to know that those things are immoral but the bible doesn't follow. If you want a wife you rape her and then pay her father to marry her. Is that moral? Come on, yo
u know it's not because we've moved past that archaic morality. If you claim a book is absolutely true and the infallible word of god, then you MUST think all the above is correct and moral. As for contradictions, if you assert that there are none that "hold water" than you either haven't done any serious of study of the bible and blindly assert it's all true, or you conveniently ignore any contradictions that conflict with your view, which is the height of stupidity. Seriously, you are coming here to an atheist forum and from what I see all your response are "No it's not!". How about some evidence to back up your statements. Oh, that's right, you don't think evidence has anything to say about god. So why are you here? Do you seriously think you could convince anyone of anything with your simple assertions?
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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