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To: angkor
etlib:"The impetus is toward protecting the self and the tribe (i.e., the immediately related group) and the other be damned."

angkor I don't see how that's at all inconsistent with what I've been saying, so unless you sharpen your argument it sounds like you're disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.

I disagree with the idea that God and Christianity has no place in the formation of morals in the US. Your post seemed to imply that a bias toward life and against death was universal. My point is that the bias is very local. Without a religiously informed morality the local bias can and does easily tend toward death of the "other"

315 posted on 08/29/2006 6:25:31 PM PDT by etlib (No creature without tentacles has ever developed true intelligence)
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To: etlib

"I disagree with the idea that God and Christianity has no place in the formation of morals in the US."

That's your mistake then, since I said nothing of the kind.

I did say that the impetus toward life and procreation, and away from death and decay, is more or less universal. There are exceptions. We recognize those exceptions as being wrong, perverse, bizarre, etc.

Religions generally support the articulation of a positive social morality, but all (OK most) are a priori based on the notion that the creation and enhancement of life is fundamental.

I guess I have to turn this around: do you think there is no universal morality outside of Christianity?


318 posted on 08/29/2006 6:43:29 PM PDT by angkor
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