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Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making?

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RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making?

April 15, 2013 at 7:00 pm

At worst, three or four people could be accused of something akin to not rolling out a red carpet and handing the OP a bouquet of roses, and that was enough to get a mod to ask folks to calm down. As many people went ahead and answered the OP. The forum start page indicates that 124 members have visited the site in the past 24 hours; I have no idea how many of those were in the ~9 or so hours since this topic was started, but it seems reasonable to assume at least a couple dozen.

I think it's a bit of an overreaction to compare it to bullying.

"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould

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Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 9:14 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by archangle - April 15, 2013 at 9:19 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 9:22 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 9:26 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 9:43 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by archangle - April 15, 2013 at 11:24 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Neo-Scholastic - April 15, 2013 at 9:24 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 9:36 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 9:41 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 9:44 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 9:48 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 9:56 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by rexbeccarox - April 15, 2013 at 9:33 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 9:41 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by rexbeccarox - April 15, 2013 at 9:48 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pocaracas - April 15, 2013 at 9:50 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Esquilax - April 15, 2013 at 10:02 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 10:07 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pocaracas - April 15, 2013 at 10:13 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 10:03 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 10:14 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 10:29 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by LastPoet - April 15, 2013 at 10:41 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 10:54 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Jackalope - April 15, 2013 at 1:23 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 5:27 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Jackalope - April 15, 2013 at 5:38 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 5:51 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Jackalope - April 15, 2013 at 6:02 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pocaracas - April 15, 2013 at 7:12 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 7:17 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by LastPoet - April 15, 2013 at 10:28 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 10:32 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 15, 2013 at 10:48 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pocaracas - April 15, 2013 at 12:10 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pocaracas - April 16, 2013 at 4:37 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Cato - April 15, 2013 at 1:43 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Darkstar - April 15, 2013 at 3:26 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Kayenneh - April 15, 2013 at 3:40 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Minimalist - April 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by festive1 - April 15, 2013 at 6:04 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Minimalist - April 15, 2013 at 7:35 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Kayenneh - April 15, 2013 at 6:40 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Tonus - April 15, 2013 at 7:00 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 7:11 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Kayenneh - April 15, 2013 at 7:27 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 7:33 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by rexbeccarox - April 15, 2013 at 7:42 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by pathos - April 15, 2013 at 7:59 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Kayenneh - April 15, 2013 at 7:58 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by rexbeccarox - April 15, 2013 at 8:06 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Kayenneh - April 15, 2013 at 8:12 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Creed of Heresy - April 15, 2013 at 8:32 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Jackalope - April 15, 2013 at 11:02 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by festive1 - April 15, 2013 at 8:34 pm

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Angrboda - April 16, 2013 at 2:48 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by paulpablo - April 16, 2013 at 6:37 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 16, 2013 at 7:54 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Kayenneh - April 16, 2013 at 7:59 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 16, 2013 at 8:02 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by Faith No More - April 16, 2013 at 8:50 am

RE: Do religious beliefs actually have any significant bearing on moral decision making? - by KichigaiNeko - April 16, 2013 at 9:49 am

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