sdr <sdrodrian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>What Atheists Can't Answer
>By Michael Gerson Friday, July 13, 2007;
>Page A17 Wa****ngton Post
>
> " Human nature, in other cir***stances, is also
> clearly constructed for cruel exploitation,
> uncontrollable rage, icy selfishness and a range of
> other less desirable traits.
>
> So the dilemma is this: How do we choose between
> good and bad instincts? Theism, for several
> millennia, has given one answer:
An atheist might answer:
Another perspective is that people enshrine their moral codes in their
religion, as a way to give them both institutional permanence and
supposedly, divine, therefore, unquestionable authority. The fiction
is useful.
But it should be noted that people have enshrined in religion such
moral rules as allow slavery and command the killing of non-believers;
etc.
Of course, such an atheist would only be mouthing words fed to him by
Satan, and should be stoned. ;-)
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