(August 31, 2012 at 7:13 pm)padraic Wrote:Isn't that what I said, essentially?Quote: Morality is innate in all of us. To say that we didn't know right from wrong before the "burning bush" is ridiculous. I doubt very much we would have made this far if we didn't.
If that was the true,moral rules would be universal,absolute and unchanging,but that is no the case. Morality is based on self interest.IE survival.
PS at least some of the 613 commandments were lifted from Hammurabi's code.
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Where do atheists get their morality from?
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