(June 16, 2013 at 3:10 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Secular morality falls short of Christian morality by a country mile.
Secular morality has the advantage of being able to improve over time. Religious dogma retards human advancement and restricts changes to systems that refer to morals by being set in stone at a fixed time in antiquity.
Deist Paladin has already gone over these so I wont repeat them here.
My point is that you are looking at religious morality through rose tinted glasses and being very wrong as a result.
As well as that.
A good secular person is good because they are a good person, a good theist may be good just because they are afraid of god.
You can see this time and time again over multiple threads. theists saying that without god there is nothing to stop them going on various sorts of evil rampages
To me this suggests that the average theist WANTS to go on an evil rampage and its only the thought of their particular deity that is holding them back.
Secular morality for the win.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
