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To: HumanaeVitae
Sorry, but I'm afraid that you're going to have to address the point:
Some humans have the notion that God approves of murdering infidels and beating women who expose their faces, so we need a better way to evaluate moral claims than "because God says so".

197 posted on 02/26/2003 12:08:13 PM PST by steve-b
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To: steve-b
Some humans have the notion that God approves of murdering infidels and beating women who expose their faces, so we need a better way to evaluate moral claims than "because God says so".

How about this? You can either a) choose to be beaten for exposing your face, b) beat those with exposed faces, c) be neither beater nor beaten, or d) have no opinion. While we may have some who choose options b) or d), it is highly doubtful anyone would choose a). Since we can achieve universal agreement, option a) is morally wrong.

207 posted on 02/26/2003 12:17:07 PM PST by laredo44
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To: steve-b
Sorry, but I'm afraid that you're going to have to address the point: Some humans have the notion that God approves of murdering infidels and beating women who expose their faces, so we need a better way to evaluate moral claims than "because God says so".

Matthew 22: 36-41

Sometimes steve, I don't know if you're Faye Raye or the biplanes.

213 posted on 02/26/2003 12:23:08 PM PST by HumanaeVitae
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To: steve-b
Some humans have the notion that God approves of murdering infidels and beating women who expose their faces, so we need a better way to evaluate moral claims than "because God says so".

Of course it helps to know who the real God is in order to have the ability to recognize what does or doesn't come from Him.

294 posted on 02/26/2003 3:58:35 PM PST by Jorge
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To: steve-b
so we need a better way to evaluate moral claims than "because God says so

like I say so?

or Hitler says so?

or you say so?

It is all relative inside mans own head.

484 posted on 03/17/2003 9:07:41 AM PST by CyberCowboy777 (In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
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