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To: Captain PJ

“It does not take a god to instill a good sense of right and wrong.”

No, it takes a God to immutably define right and wrong and thereby provide a consistent basis for understanding it. If there is no God then your “right and wrong” goes only as far as you and your guys and your guns can take it. It certainly may not mean a damn thing to me. Why should YOUR opinions count more generally than anyone elses?


99 posted on 10/15/2010 2:44:34 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack
"“It does not take a god to instill a good sense of right and wrong.”

"No, it takes a God to immutably define right and wrong and thereby provide a consistent basis for understanding it."

I suppose I would have asked how a person knows that "It does not take a god to instill a good sense of right and wrong"? There is no way to 'know' that.

It can only be assumed by begging the question in the first place.

100 posted on 10/15/2010 2:55:14 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: TalBlack

Mr Hitchins: I do not bow to God because He frightens me or because He has promised me something. I bow to God because He knows what I do not know.


102 posted on 10/15/2010 3:16:15 PM PDT by TalBlack
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