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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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To: Dead Corpse
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.

I am, but it's not required if you'd rather not.

Once you accept God for what He is (rather than what you'd like Him to be) the Bible isn't impossible to understand, but it isn't for sissies, either.

5,511 posted on 03/13/2013 9:02:58 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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