RE: Does religion corrupt morality?
September 3, 2015 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2015 at 9:16 pm by Pyrrho.)
(September 3, 2015 at 9:05 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Wow, was not expecting something that vitriolic or mean. No, I never stated that I think a belief in god is reasonable. And I see enough strawmanning from theists, I'd rather not see it from someone who happens to hold the same position on the god claim as I do.
If you are going to accuse me of committing a fallacy, why is it that you do not have the decency to explain how it is that you imagine it applies to what I have stated? I have said, being religious means that one is necessarily unreasonable. This is due to the fact that religious belief is unreasonable.
Now, is being unreasonable a quality that you believe promotes morality? If so, please explain.
If, on the other hand, you believe that being unreasonable corrupts morality, you should be saying that you think that religion is a corrupting influence, since it promotes irrationality.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
