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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Claims of morality is sophistry without some higher power defining what it is.

I posit to you that morals were invented by societies as they started banning those things that were found to detrimental to the society, and promoting things that were found to be beneficial. They later ascribed these rules to their god for enforcement.

And even if a higher power defines morality and rights, they are always subject to interpretation by humans, and therefore a completely fluid concepts. Whatever the book says, society will interpret it to their current mores, just as it conceived of those morals in the first place. For example, the Catholic Church used to freely endorse the death penalty based on scripture, but society has changed, so the Church no longer endorses it.

104 posted on 12/26/2006 8:40:18 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Might makes right... anything else is religion...


107 posted on 12/26/2006 8:57:50 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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