These articles were published between January 2001 and February 4, 2010.
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These articles were published between January 2001 and February 4, 2010.
To view more recent posts, go to The Main Blog at ExChristian.Net
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Grandpa Harley
I wish some of these nuts would go over to Iraq and parachute down into Bagdad and see what fun and how easy it would be to be a martyr for their beliefs.
I like the instant mustache and hair...lol
And I'd bet money that he uses a car...and modern medical treatments...air conditioning, central heating, electric light....all of which were made possible by SCIENCE.
1) There is no scientific way to determine moral values. Science can only examine what people say are moral values and what comes of that in objective terms.
2) Moral values are socially constructed. But this doesn't mean they're *arbitrary* either.
See:
http://www.churchoffreethought.org/cgi-bin/contray/contray.cgi?ID=000011010&GROUP=049
for further analysis
Now then, I have a question for each of these fellows. To the believer I ask: If the only reason to be good is to please your deity so you can get into heaven and avoid hell, doesn't that mean that being good is only a means to an end, and that the *greater good* is really getting into heaven and escaping hell? So if your God told you to rob, rape, and kill, you would do that, just as his followers in the OT did?
And to Brett I ask: Why should someone *not* do whatever they want, even if it violated the general standards of morals held by a community or even by that someone, if they were sure not to get caught?
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