To: js1138
I apologize. I did not mean any such thing. I will stipulate that a belief in evolution does not make one a Nazi.
928 posted on
11/10/2003 12:39:48 PM PST by
Tribune7
(It's not like he let his secretary drown in his car or something.)
To: Tribune7
You didn't say it, but you are insisting that there is no evil without religion. With a few notable exceptions, the laws and commandments deal with our relations with other people. Those of us lucky enough not to be raised by wolves know these commandments in our hearts, because our mother taught them to us.
Why do mothers teach these things.? I think some of it is cultural, passed on from generation to generation, and some of it is inborn, part of being a mammal. I had a mother cat one time that couldn't eat due to an absess in her mouth. We didn't know about this and she couldn't talk. When she got too thin to feed her kittens she brought them to us. we didn't understand at first, and put them back in her nest. This was repeated several times before we figured it out.
You can say whatever you want about original sin, but there is also original virtue. And it appears to be coded in our genes.
931 posted on
11/10/2003 12:51:22 PM PST by
js1138
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