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Secular morals
July 25, 2012 at 10:38 am
I though I share this video about secular morals, and why we can be moral without necessarily a deity.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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RE: Secular morals
July 25, 2012 at 11:33 am
One of the best discussions of secular morality I've seen. Thanks for sharing.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: Secular morals
July 25, 2012 at 11:36 am
Yes, one of the big arguments that theists keep bringing up. Most atheists are actually more moral than theists, they don't kill & mame in the name of a guy they haven't even met, they don't block research that has the potential to save a lot of lives just because they think that their sky pal disagrees with that type of research, & most of all, atheists are good by their own choice, they're not forced to be good in order to avoid the fires of hell or to f*** virgins.
how do we know what is moral & what is not? easy, if I don't want that done to me, I wouldn't do it to anybody else, that's why I don't consider victimless crimes to be immoral.
