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To: Dead Corpse
Missing the point. Those arbitrary edicts are from multiple religions. The dog prohibition is Muslim.

I don't pay attention to Islam because it fails basic logic tests of any religion claiming to represent reality. I also don't pay much attention to the priestly class of Christianity, which is the religion I practice. They're just people and as likely to abuse religion for political purposes as any other person is.

The prohibition against pork for Jews and the sacredness of the sabbath for all make a lot of sense - there's nothing arbitrary about them. (Note how Jesus correctly interpreted the sacredness of the Sabbath - as against what the Priestly class had imposed on the people.)

5,507 posted on 03/13/2013 8:41:59 AM PDT by ArGee (An open mind is like an open window - if you don't have a screen, you get flies.)
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To: ArGee
...fails basic logic tests of any religion claiming to represent reality.

Let's not go there. Unless you are prepared to discuss ritual cannibalism, the violation of a married woman (with, or without her consent), transmutation of matter, and the entire book of Leviticus.

This is why I started looking directly at moral codes rather than the mythologies in various religions. What was the baseline calculus behind each?

Ten Commandments and the 9 noble Virtues both have things to recommend them, although the 9 can apply without running into a supernatural basis for the epistemology.

The 9 are Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, and Perseverance.

As a philosophy, they cover a lot and ad reducto doesn't trip over much in the way of logical failures.

Works for me. Your mileage may vary... ;-)

5,510 posted on 03/13/2013 8:59:51 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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