To: Elsie
Take a deep breath. Relax. I'm not sure exactly what you are saying, but it doesn't sound like anything I'd say.
What I say and have repeatedly said is that we have an innate sense of right and wrong. We have this from an early age.
Moral teaching is about placing this innate sense in context, providing examples, and demonstrating the complexities.
If I am critical of the Bible it is because I believe it is written and compiled by human beings, inspired or not. The Bible shows evidence that moral understanding has evolved over the millennia. Things that were acceptable thousands of years ago offend us now.
845 posted on
03/16/2006 1:45:14 PM PST by
js1138
To: js1138
What I say and have repeatedly said is that we have an innate sense of right and wrong. We have this from an early age.this, I must respectfully disagree with.
I believe that most (if not all) humans are born with a *potential* to form concept systems of right and wrong, but maintain that no human has a "better angel of his nature" that isn't carefully beaten into him by his parents and society.
848 posted on
03/16/2006 2:03:47 PM PST by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
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