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what do you folks think about this religion?
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RE: what do you folks think about this religion?
December 7, 2016 at 10:59 pm (This post was last modified: December 8, 2016 at 1:52 am by robvalue.)
If you have to have dogma to be a good person, you're a psychopath, and you have no way of distinguishing a good outcome from a bad one (morally speaking).

Religion, at best, acts as a mirror for people's own morality. At worst, it warps their natural morality with taught/enforced bigotry.

The idea that religion is somehow necessary to be a good person is just part of the dogma, and is only supported in a circular manner. (I'm moral because I'm a Christian, and so I have Christian moral values, etc.)
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what do you folks think about this religion?

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what do you folks think about this religion? - by tigerlove - December 7, 2016 at 8:15 am
RE: what do you folks think about this religion? - by Alex K - December 7, 2016 at 9:27 am
RE: what do you folks think about this religion? - by Alex K - December 7, 2016 at 9:28 am
RE: what do you folks think about this religion? - by brewer - December 7, 2016 at 12:43 pm
RE: what do you folks think about this religion? - by robvalue - December 7, 2016 at 10:59 pm
RE: what do you folks think about this religion? - by chimp3 - December 8, 2016 at 7:02 am

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