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How Do We Behave?
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RE: How Do We Behave?
Religious morals started out as secular morals but were then twisted and contorted to best serve those who were in power to aid in the manipulation of the masses.

Our innate sense of what is right and wrong does not come from some higher supernatural source but is as a result of countless generations of evolutionary fine tuning to produce societies that work and that care for and protect each other from the harshness of the natural world.

Most, if not all of us would consider ourselves moral creatures with an inbuilt sense of what is right and wrong. If it were true that the source of this behaviour is biblical and prior to this no-one had any moral understanding or, any morals that existed were nonsensical then it would be very unlikely that the human race would have survived long enough for religion to be created in the first place.
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How Do We Behave? - by diffidus - May 12, 2011 at 2:58 pm
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