On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:32:27 GMT, in alt.atheism
Myal <Dumaree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>Free Lunch wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:18:15 GMT, in alt.atheism
>> Myal <Dumaree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>>> thomas p. wrote:
>>>> "Myal" <Dumaree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en meddelelse
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>>>>> Don Atkinson wrote:
>>>>>> As a life long atheist I'll do my best to answer your questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Firstly if your faith determines what you do in life then why have
so
>>>>>> many catholics I know had anal *** and I have not? Take it on faith
that
>>>>>> I am ***ually attractive and would appreciate such activity as much
as
>>>>>> I'm sure they have. My point is this. I have never broken the law
and
>>>>>> many religious people have. I havent thrown my genitals all over
the
>>>>>> place so much as they have. I think faith is only a guide in your
life if
>>>>>> you make it one. My morality is my guide to being moral.I've never
had
>>>>>> faith. Some faithful folks just happen to be faithful but let their
>>>>>> stomach, wallet, and biological urges do the thinking. If faith
insures
>>>>>> morality, it insures is about as effectively as hurricane insurance
from
>>>>>> a company which just filed bankruptcy. It only gave insurance in
theory,
>>>>>> not in practice. If having morals without religion is not possible
than I
>>>>>> am all the proof of miracles you should ever need.
>>>>>>
>>>>> But , if there is no god , what is wrong with having ones genitalia
waved
>>>>> all over the place ?
>>>>>
>>>>> who decides what is moral and immoral anyway , what are you using
for a
>>>>> yardstick here ?
>>>>
>>>> Do you actually see nothing wrong in killing somebody except that you
think
>>>> some god tells you not to?
>>>>
>>>> snip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> you didnt answer the question , is it because you cant ?
>>
>> We know that no god has ever decided that anything was moral or
immoral.
>> The God of the Bible was a blood thirsty murderer in story after story,
>> so it is clear that you don't get those rules from him.
>>
>> Morality comes from what a society will tolerate and what it will not
>> tolerate. Some societies claim that their god had something to do with
>> it, but have no evidence to back it up.
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>
>LOL
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>and the morals bit came rom a guy proud of NOT having his genitalia
>waved around and he claimed to be moral ??
Did you think you meant something here?
As you know, there is no evidence that morality ever came from any gods.
Since that is the case, where do you think morality came from if not
society?
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