.@RosaRubicondior As the late Hitchens wrote: Why would a god choose an illiterate, desert-bound people when China was already civilized?
@josh_m Don't confuse primitive superstitions with their codification. Most Christian "tenets" are just hijackings of a natural morality.
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@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 I get that that is highly simplistic (eg morality in a tribe is useful for survival), but still a contentious point.
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@josh_m No, it's only contentious if it contends with one's belief system. Primitives murdered, stole and raped no more than modern man.
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@emlynaddison That’s really a separate issue. I guess the point of the original Q is; why would we listen to *anything* they have to say?
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@josh_m That Christians *don't* think that primitive cultures knew more/higher morals? If they EVER conceded that, catastrophe!
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