OK, back. My position is a) I use humanist/positivist principles as the basis for my own choices, because that's in line with how I think...
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Replying to @burtonad @HPluckrose
... b) many deeply moral and ethical people use religious teaching and principles as the basis for their choices. I don't think "I have...
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... the better of this argument." IOW, I don't see atheism/positivism as self-evidently superior to religion/natural law principles.
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So saying "I look to...." is different (to me) to saying "we should look to." Does that make sense?
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Does it make sense that people base their morality on different premises? Of course. We can still argue for better & worse ones tho.
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If Christians are right & a God exists that tortures disbelievers for all eternity, the moral thing to do wld be to force belief hard.
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Kill or otherwise remove from society people who spread doubt. Ban homosexuality. Forbid women from speaking in church etc.
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Save as many people as you possibly can from such an awful fate by whatever means possible.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between "here's what I do" and "here's what you have to do"
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Not every action taken by a Christian is because failure to do so results in certain damnation, I think.
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Of course not but this is not an argument for basing morality on religion.
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