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The creation basis for morality
CEH ^ | Steve Cardno

Posted on 11/20/2008 9:35:15 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

News bulletins every day abound with stories of moral unrest somewhere in the world. The Columbine high-school massacre in America a few years ago focused world attention on a once-average community which suffered the outrage of brutal murders. The atrocities that resulted in the deaths of thousands in the World Trade Center terrorist acts brought to light how wicked human beings can be towards one another.

Society’s laws are being violated at an ever-increasing rate, as evidenced by the rapid expansion of police forces and proliferation of all manner of ‘security’ devices and services to protect life and property. Clearly, our social ethics have not kept pace with our incredible achievements in science and technology. Social reform and massive government spending on new ideas to cure society’s ills will be doomed to failure in the long run as society’s shift away from God-based concepts continues. Why is this?...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; bible; catholic; christian; corruption; creation; evolution; homosexualagenda; judeochristian; moralabsolutes; morality; prolife; tencommandments

1 posted on 11/20/2008 9:35:16 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

I’m convinced things started going downhill in the late thirteenth century with Siger of Brabant and the Latin Averroists...


2 posted on 11/20/2008 9:39:31 AM PST by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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To: GodGunsGuts

And so we all become rats in Skinner’s maze seaking reward and avoiding punishment?


3 posted on 11/20/2008 9:41:19 AM PST by PasorBob
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To: GodGunsGuts
More of the usual creationist lamentations and misrepresentations, along with the de rigueur Hitler comparisons. (Yawn.)

That's what you have to resort to when you have no scientific evidence to present against the theory of evolution, eh?

4 posted on 11/20/2008 10:00:35 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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