RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 30, 2019 at 10:48 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2019 at 10:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-Now that I got all of the pleasantries and pretend out of the way....
I don't know why you're balling yourself up into a knot on this. You've supplied your evaluative premise before. There's no reason to be cagey about your beliefs, the beliefs that informed your assertion that there is some profound moral difference between religion and no religion.
We should not do bad things | because we were created by a god in it's image.
You've indicated, many times..that if the purported empirical fact after the line were not true, you would suddenly think that "all was permissible".
I don't know why you're balling yourself up into a knot on this. You've supplied your evaluative premise before. There's no reason to be cagey about your beliefs, the beliefs that informed your assertion that there is some profound moral difference between religion and no religion.
We should not do bad things | because we were created by a god in it's image.
You've indicated, many times..that if the purported empirical fact after the line were not true, you would suddenly think that "all was permissible".
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