... 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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Unless, of course, you are a devout Muslim who thinks the notion that Allah had a son is deeply blasphemous.
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They'd be wrong too and should be forced to be Christian.
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I'm sure we can both agree different premises for morality exist. Is the difference that I think they can be argued to be better or worse?
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Probably a question of the extent to which they can be so argued. I'd never assert "all bases for morality are equally justified."
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Which is an argument I hear from believers to atheists - "since you don't believe in God, the final arbiter, to you anything is allowed."
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OK, but we're way off the subject and I am going to leave it here.
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Oh, OK. Thanks for the stimulating conversation.
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