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!@#$%! · 02.02.2012, 01:46 PM

i read that thing (thanks for the link, appalling shit) and what jumped at me was that people confuse ethics with religion. you could easily replace "god" in that sign and have something equally wholesome "universal values", e.g.:

"let us each day have the desire to do our best..let us be good sports... " etc etc. with "let us" denoting intent ("let's") not permission (allow us).

one of the frequent cons perpetrated by religion is that without god(s) we'd be devoid of morality. morality is a function of the human brain just like language or mathematics. yes, it varies from culture to culture, but i think that religion reflects morality more often than it shapes it

so when people foam at the mouth about what this girl is doing in the name of religious freedom, they think that she's asking for rape and mayhem and carnage. eh, most people aren't very rational.

02.02.2012, 01:46 PM	#32
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,729	i read that thing (thanks for the link, appalling shit) and what jumped at me was that people confuse ethics with religion. you could easily replace "god" in that sign and have something equally wholesome "universal values", e.g.: "let us each day have the desire to do our best..let us be good sports... " etc etc. with "let us" denoting intent ("let's") not permission (allow us). one of the frequent cons perpetrated by religion is that without god(s) we'd be devoid of morality. morality is a function of the human brain just like language or mathematics. yes, it varies from culture to culture, but i think that religion reflects morality more often than it shapes it so when people foam at the mouth about what this girl is doing in the name of religious freedom, they think that she's asking for rape and mayhem and carnage. eh, most people aren't very rational.
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