(September 27, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: It seems to me that our technology and knowledge about the sciences have advanced far beyond that of our forebears - but our morality has not.
We have better stuff, but we are not better people.
But by nearly every measure, we are better. There is less crime, violence, rape, torture now then there ever has been in history.
If you haven't try reading Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature." He lays out it out in pretty awesome detail.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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