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Do theists need a threat to be moral?
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RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral?
(June 12, 2016 at 7:19 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Better to say that good people need religion to make them do bad things.

Make that ordinary instead of good and replace religion with ideology. Because religion, carried to it's extreme is nothing else than an ideology. But it's not the only ideology by a long chalk.
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Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by brewer - June 12, 2016 at 3:44 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 12, 2016 at 4:40 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Chad32 - June 12, 2016 at 4:43 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by abaris - June 12, 2016 at 5:55 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by dyresand - June 12, 2016 at 7:15 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by abaris - June 12, 2016 at 7:21 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 12:40 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by brewer - June 13, 2016 at 7:27 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Lucanus - June 13, 2016 at 1:40 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 2:24 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Ignorant - June 13, 2016 at 11:13 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by abaris - June 13, 2016 at 11:50 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Ignorant - June 13, 2016 at 11:57 am
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 12:32 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Ignorant - June 13, 2016 at 1:04 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by abaris - June 13, 2016 at 1:09 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Ignorant - June 13, 2016 at 1:18 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 12:57 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 1:09 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by Ignorant - June 13, 2016 at 1:14 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 2:08 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by brewer - June 13, 2016 at 2:33 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 13, 2016 at 2:46 pm
RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral? - by robvalue - June 14, 2016 at 1:43 am

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