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Originally Posted by Thebigyin04
how is getting rid of all religion any better than one getting rid of the other... if religion was gone , some other cultural differences would arise , maybe if there was no religion from the beginning murder would be acceptable , theft , the damming of thy parents .. you get my point ..
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No I don't, cos your point is entirely flawed. You're equating morals with religion, something that the religious often do. It's a fallacy to suggest that morals would not exist without religion.
As I've pointed out elsewhere in this thread, a basic concept of right and wrong is an evolved trait, totally in keeping with the theory of natural selection (in case you don't want to go looking for the post the basics are this - two social groups have different attitudes. One thinks that murder, rape, theft etc isn't a good idea, the other is all for the murdering rapists and thieves. One of these social groups is more likely to survive than the other....and it's not the raping murderers. Over time a basic concept of morals becomes hard wired into us via natural selection)
Where do you think the religions of the world got their morals from? It certainly wasn't from 'god'