.@RosaRubicondior As the late Hitchens wrote: Why would a god choose an illiterate, desert-bound people when China was already civilized?
@josh_m "Starting point"? That would coincide with the emergence of hunter-gatherer societies. "Society" being the operative word.
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@emlynaddison Original question was whether Christians thought primitive cultures knew more/higher morals. Don’t know any1 who thinks that!
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@josh_m Don't confuse primitive superstitions with their codification. Most Christian "tenets" are just hijackings of a natural morality. -
@emlynaddison Got some good literature on natural morality? The argument on Xian side is usually morality and natural selection are opposite
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@josh_m By "natural morality" I mean "naturally-occurring morality". Or is our morality the sole domain of the Christian faith? Ouch. -
@emlynaddison Hardly. I think you have me confused with a fundie. :) I’m interested in morality separate from religion…
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@josh_m Well there's the rub: the religious insist that morality can only come from servitude to god. I don't know any religions that don't.
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@emlynaddison ah! I was thinking about ‘faith’ more than ‘religion’. Latter is definitely about codes of behaviour. Mea culpa.
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