Thread: Deity Existence
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Old 06-17-2009, 04:06 AM   #655
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Originally Posted by Jikanu View Post
You missed the whole point of my post. i was saying you wouldnt CARE if you were raped, as animals most certainly dont and see it only as reproductive or recreational activity. That's where it doesnt fit with darwinism.
Many animals do shy away from sex and try to avoid it. They don't keep doing it mindlessly. And the reason we find rape wrong is because it has been ingrained into us by the environment around us. I won't deny that most morality today has stemmed from religion. I am merely saying it can exist full well without religion.

Originally Posted by Jikanu View Post
And being benevolent, he follows the rules of the universe.
Rules which make him behave malevolently. He set the rules, he can abolish them if he really wants to do good.

Originally Posted by Jikanu View Post
And you're asking me to prove the unprovable; i have neither the tools nor the knowlege to answer that. it's like giving someone a glass of water and asking them to use it to show what it's made of.
I'm only saying that faith isn't "something higher". It's just some poppycock invented by man.

Originally Posted by Jikanu View Post
It's not God that's bad- it's humans that use his name to cause death that are bad.
Yeah, when good is done in the name of God, hurrah, because God and religion have done something good. When bad things are done, it's just the individual people.

Originally Posted by Manzcar
But don't you agree that morals, laws, and society behaviors all stem from religious beliefs.

Hrae's moral beliefs look a lot like what is in the Bible. Treat others like how you would like to be treated.

If we really want to shed off religion in all its forms should we not also shed off the moral beliefs that stem from them?
Like I said earlier, most of morality today is because of religion, but that doesn't mean morality is completely dependent on religion. It can be practised just as well without a deity, as I showed.

And you are not the first to assume that the Bible was the progenitor of the Golden Rule. It wasn't. Regardless of who proposed it, then rule can be reached by common sense, and not necessarily by fear or religion.
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