(April 17, 2011 at 10:00 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: A little off topic but the irony of this story really drives home my principle objection to religious-based morality: it takes the eye off the ball. When we speak of morality, we should be talking about or obligations to one another as sentient beings, not our devotion to ancient taboos and superstitious ideas of divine will. Religion demonizes harmless activities like blasphemy, idolatry and destroying microscopic living cells in order to help people.
Religious apologists often like to discuss where we get our morals from. Religion is neither necessary nor helpful as a framework for our discussions on morality.
Do you mean sapient or sentient?
