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| Re: I LOVE MY MESA TREMOVERB! [message #71255 is a reply to message #71236] |
Tue, 15 August 2006 08:55   |
Gary Flanigan
Messages: 181 Registered: June 2006
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> practices should be imposed on society as a whole.
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> The Golden Rule may also be of use as a basic moral foundation.
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> So yes, you can have a moral system, one that BTW protects the freedom
> to practice religious beliefs (or not), without basing it on any one
> religion. And it can protect all religions better than a system based on
> any one religion (AKA a theocracy).
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> There are other issues surrounding religions, such as the many examples
> of selfless dedication to helping others on the one hand, and hijacked
> religions used to legitimize earthly power structures in other cases.
> Dedric, I look forward to talking with you about the positives and
> negatives of various religions, and where a moral culture ought to go
> from here, whenever we next get together.
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> Cheers,
> -Jamie
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