Bred in the bone? (Study suggests children have a sense of morality at a very young age)

WORLD ^ | June 19, 2010 | Janie B. Cheaney

[LomanBill]

>> Leave what belongs to God to God and
>>what belongs to Man to Man.

No doubt the God-Emperors of Egypt, Babylon, Rome... and Gweat Bwitton, would agree.

Those pesky 1st/2nd amendments are such a bothersome thorn in the side of our would be owners.

Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Ba’al
—The Who?

Ba’al being a Hebrew word for lord, owner, master... possessor.

[LomanBill]

[voting democRat is simply hiding your sins of theft and coveting behind the “legitimacy” of a majority vote.]

The same could be said of being an obedient corporate employee.

It’s all good as long as the bottom line is black, right, Mr. Beale?

[Truthsearcher]

You missed the point, the Bible does not say that their sinful nature prevents people from telling right from wrong. It only prevents only from doing right over wrong.

We know what’s right, we do the wrong any way,

[LomanBill]

>>Of course its in genes. Everything is.

Potential may be in the genes - but the exploitation of that potential is more likely a social product than a genetic one.

At what point does the bee become distinct from the hive... in Deseret or elsewhere?

[LomanBill]

Leaving Earth will take care of itself; but unfortunately, many religionists spend their entire lives as bee-hive slaves in anticipation of the exit.

I think our American Founders intended we “leave” the hive better than we found it...

Sort of like the BSA. Be Prepared, and always be conscious of leaving the camping spot in better condition than it was before you slept in it.

[LomanBill]

>>We know what’s right,

The Mormons who dispensed the doctrine of Blood Atonement upon non-Mormons certainly thought they did.

[Diggity]

I guess you could through in the Popes of the early Catholic church in with the God Emperors of old.

[MrB]

Vision of the Anointed was Sowell’s polemic.

In “Conflict”, he’s more balanced, examining what he calls the “unconstrained vision” vs the constrained or tragic vision of mankind. It was really amazing how he wrote it with no bias toward one or the other as “right”.

However, he DOES assert that your solutions will invariably flow from these base assumptions.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Outside of biblical references, how would one be able to tell that we are born with a sinful nature?

By watching the nightly news.

[LomanBill]

[I guess you could through in the Popes of the early Catholic church in with the God Emperors of old.]

 

I consider the Pope, past and present, to be nothing but a syncretic vestigial religious remnant of the Roman Empire.

 

Which came first - the Ishtar Bunny or the un-Holy Empire's eunuchs, in their ity Bity (Bit-Bee) hats?

[Rockingham]

Recent studies — and generations of experience — show that many animals have a rudimentary sense of fair play and equity.

[Diggity]

I agree. Plus I love those Halos they borrowed from their Pagan breathern.

[Diggity]

I think an example of that shows up in the cases where a female animal will “adopt” and nurse a baby from another species.

I had two cats once. One was the most unfriendly animal I have ever been around. That cat was my xwife’s. The other cat I called Punkin Kitty. Real sweetie. I got from the pound. Born to a feral mother. Was like a little puppy. The other cat(Puff) use to boss it around.

However if another cat came around Punkin kitty, Puff was on it like lighting. Taking care of Punkin Kitty. Really interesting behavior.

John

[LomanBill]

>>By watching the nightly news.

 

"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--Thomas Jefferson

 

History inevitably measures the impact of behavior upon social and biological fitness; as presumably the group with higher fitness is the one with more viable offspring over multiple generations... and is also the group that gets to  write history.

 

To write history, or to revise it...

"Those who control the past control the past control the future... those who control the present control the past"

--George Orwell

"you will know the Truth and it will make you free"

 

Are we there yet?

[LomanBill]

>>Plus I love those Halos they borrowed from their Pagan breathern.

Here comes the Sun(day), doo doo doo doo.

[Diggity]

7 day week, Sun moon, mercury, venus, mars,jupiter, saturn.

[LomanBill]

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world".

---The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
----Thomas Jefferson, 1786

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=virginia+act+for+establishing+religious+freedom

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

History inevitably measures the impact of behavior upon social and biological fitness; as presumably the group with higher fitness is the one with more viable offspring over multiple generations... and is also the group that gets to write history.

Sorry, if you're trying to sell moral subjectivism, try the next house.

[metmom]

Anyone who enters a debate just to twist what someone else has said and cast dispersions at them isn’t really interested in an honest exchange of ideas.

I don’t know what your problem is, but it’s certainly clear that you have them.

[metmom]

Yes, I have always thought that. It’s to humankind’s benefit to treat each other well, to cooperate with each other, to make society better. Those that participated in it had better luck surviving and having the opportunity to pass their genes along.

Have you ever read The Peace Child, by Don Richardson?

Or his other book, Eternity in Their Hearts?

Both excellent, well written books that deal with much of what is being discussed here.

The headhunting cannibalistic tribes of Indonesia didn't treat each other very well and didn't do much to improve their society, but still managed to survive.