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To: Paloma_55
Either morality comes from God, or it is a human construct

Or--as my post #48 outlined--it could have evolved, just as life evolved, is indeed inherent in life.

If it [morality] is God-given, we have no authority to change it.

With respect, much of our human history is the history of wars about who possesses the authority of God. Or who has the 'correct' understanding of God's will. No matter what you believe, you are a heretic to someone else's religion. Every religious follower believes his God, his morality, is the right one--but they are mutually exclusive and incompatible, and that has given humanity no end of suffering

99 posted on 09/13/2005 6:47:13 AM PDT by SeaLion (I wanted to be an orphan, but my parents wouldn't let me)
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To: SeaLion

With respect, much of our human history is the history of wars about who possesses the authority of God.

the other part of our human history is the history of wars about who possesses the authority of man.


103 posted on 09/13/2005 6:49:10 AM PDT by Paloma_55
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