(February 16, 2015 at 12:47 pm)Gavin Duffy Wrote: It has frequently been posited that morality may only be deduced from a doctrine (or word of God) and that without so would leave humanity in a moral stupor.
Well if that's the case, we're screwed because it should be obvious that even if there is such a doctrine, religious types can't agree on what it is. That's why there are hundreds of different religions and those are fractured into hundreds of sects each.
In the end, religious types filter the vague and contradictory doctrine of their religions through their own moral lens. It all comes from self-conviction and entropy.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein