(June 10, 2013 at 12:30 am)ronedee Wrote: Ok laughing smartass.... where do "morals" come from? I'll wait...
A difficult question. My morals come from my heart, when a man is hitting a woman I intervene not because I wonder if it will make god happy that I'm doing the right thing.
Considering abuse is allowed in the bible
(Exodus 21:20-21 NAB) When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.
I'd say I'm even more moral than the religious are. The religious program of celestial kudos for good and eternal damnation for bad has been hindering mankind for quite long enough. I hope that when there is nothing to cast judgement upon us, God or man, then man will understand that it is by our will alone that we do good things. One could argue that the social strife (In India, the Hindu caste system organises division of labour and power in human society. It is a system of social stratification) religion has placed upon man is the sole reason man is corrupt. Unfortunately going back to the time when the Earth was bountiful for all without borders means a lot of people are going to die, but they will die from the hands of the religious (The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, hundreds of thousands were tortured and then killed.)
