.@jonasarvind The Romans tried and then, like all human institutions, Christianity did its own stifling. There's your #history.
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.@jonasarvind There is no greater evidence of humans' silly superstitiousness than moral allegories dolled up as actualizations of reality.
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@jonasarvind Our morality has only ever been our own. Religions hijack morality/science/thought/etc and recast it to serve their narrative. -
@emlynaddison here is a good essay on morality you should share with
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@tadmaster@jonasarvind It is much, much simpler than this. Objective morality must answer to survival: does an action benefit one's genes? -
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@jonasarvind - but we've evolved the ability to rationalize behaviors (ie, religion) not necessarily helpful to our genes -
@tadmaster Not rationalize; codify -> Massive difference. We still innately know the difference between right & wrong.@jonasarvind -
@tadmaster The discovery of an isolated Amazonian tribe suggests that morality exists far from any religious institutions.@jonasarvind -
@emlynaddison right, but anthropologically, what is religion if not an attempt to codify & rationalize complex systems?
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