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To: xzins
Atheism does make it possible for anyone to create any morality they feel like based on the needs of the moment, doesn't it?

That's a failing of humans, not of their belief system. One needs only point to such things as the sack of Jerusalem, the use of Shinto in WWII Japan, the Thirty Years War, the Spanish Inquisition or the current troubles in the Muslim word to show that people don't need atheism to "create any morality they feel like based on the needs of the moment." Theism can do just fine, if the people are so inclined.

1,841 posted on 02/17/2006 10:30:34 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash; RunningWolf; OrthodoxPresbyterian

Ahhhh...you miss the point.

Christianity provides an ultimate standard, doesn't it?


1,846 posted on 02/17/2006 10:36:07 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: WildHorseCrash

One needs only point to such things as the sack of Jerusalem, the use of Shinto in WWII Japan, the Thirty Years War, the Spanish Inquisition or the current troubles in the Muslim word to show that people don't need atheism to "create any morality they feel like based on the needs of the moment." Theism can do just fine, if the people are so inclined.

Not to mention that the Holocaust is a logical and historically consistent extension of the Inquisition.

2,002 posted on 02/17/2006 2:50:19 PM PST by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads)
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