.@jonasarvind The Romans tried and then, like all human institutions, Christianity did its own stifling. There's your #history.
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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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@tadmaster Anthropologically, religion was a social control system: allegories. That doesn't mean snakes can *actually* talk.@jonasarvind -
@emlynaddison exactly; religion=control system, morality =mechanism, science=testing framework.
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@jonasarvind and his ilk would have us believe that the mechanism (or, technically, trait) is "god"-given.#MythColoredGlasses@tadmaster -
@emlynaddison heh - and any attempt to outgrow their imaginary restraints is an attempt to "stifle the spread of His Word"
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