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What is the point of morality if you're a theist?
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RE: What is the point of morality if you're a theist?
(October 21, 2013 at 11:38 am)Drich Wrote: I do not disagree here, but the greater issue your over looking is the fact that if you base your 'morality' on soceity, then any form of debauchery is possiable. All one needs is the blessing of his peers then people can line up and pay to have their unwanted children killed. The only thing our soceity requires is that you do not call them children, you must use the name fetus. Otherwise your good.

And here is where that idea gets you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24532694

Quote:El Salvador has one of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the world. A side-effect is that women who suffer miscarriages or stillbirths are sometimes suspected of inducing an abortion - and can even be jailed for murder.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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RE: What is the point of morality if you're a theist? - by downbeatplumb - October 21, 2013 at 12:50 pm

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