(October 13, 2011 at 12:25 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:(October 13, 2011 at 11:01 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: In fact, reading the holy books makes it clear that little time is spend on the evils of murder or rape and more on failure to adhere to religious faith and rituals.
Reading the Bible shows that "God" actually condones rape & murder.
True. I guess I was putting it mildly. My bad.
In any event, my point is that religious-based "morality" usually involves more adherence to dogma, rituals or abstaining from loving someone with similar body parts. Not only is religion not helpful to understand morality (saying "GodWillsIt" isn't an explanation) but it's also counter productive for introducing rules that have nothing to do with morality and placing these rules above real consequential morality.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
