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Sacrificing our Moral Compasses
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RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses
June 19, 2014 at 12:12 pm
(June 19, 2014 at 11:21 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That doesn't follow from your premises.

Firstly, it may be that the men who invented religion were good men who had no idea that their idea would be perverted into a tool of control, corruption, and destruction.
In that case you've just moved the evil from the creators to the corrupters. The point remains that if there is no god, then evil in religion is just a reflection of evil in mankind.
Quote:Secondly, even if religion's creators did know that, the most you could infer is that some men are evil.
OK. I wasn't really going after a universal.
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Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 17, 2014 at 3:10 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 17, 2014 at 3:30 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 17, 2014 at 6:32 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Jenny A - June 17, 2014 at 7:43 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 19, 2014 at 10:22 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Bibliofagus - June 19, 2014 at 10:57 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Crossless1 - June 17, 2014 at 5:50 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by downbeatplumb - June 20, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Rampant.A.I. - June 17, 2014 at 3:40 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by ShaMan - June 17, 2014 at 3:43 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 5:32 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by ThePinsir - June 17, 2014 at 5:39 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 5:42 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 6:01 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Rampant.A.I. - June 19, 2014 at 10:57 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 19, 2014 at 11:14 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Thumpalumpacus - June 19, 2014 at 11:21 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 19, 2014 at 12:12 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 11:32 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 11:34 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 11:43 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 11:44 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 11:48 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 11:50 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:22 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Bad Wolf - June 19, 2014 at 12:11 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:36 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:42 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:48 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:55 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 19, 2014 at 3:40 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:02 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:07 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:09 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:18 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:24 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:28 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:34 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:31 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:39 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:54 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 4:15 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 20, 2014 at 6:07 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by MJ the Skeptical - June 20, 2014 at 11:02 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 21, 2014 at 3:11 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 21, 2014 at 3:46 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Thumpalumpacus - June 21, 2014 at 8:19 am

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