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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (243618)7/27/2005 7:34:52 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1575626
 
No. I know lot's of people who are atheists who have a more solid moral character than self-professed religious people. But that is the exception, not the norm.

Forget about what you believe for a second. Think about it purely from a sociologist's perspective. Religion was created, in part, to explain the unknowable. However, another very important reason religion was created was to form a societal set of taboos and guidelines that would allow societies to function on a large scale. Without those guidelines, reinforced by very strong societal taboos, large scale societies simply can't function. Without taboos, no society can afford the number of policemen it would take to keep order in that society. Think about America. Think about the vast majority of people and how they follow rules and laws even though no one is looking over their shoulder. If everyone was always out for the fast buck and thought nothing of doing whatever it takes to get it, societies would crumble.

Religion is an organized way to promote mutually beneficial societal functioning. Take that away and you start to erode the taboos that are the glue of society. If you take away religion, then you need to replace it with some other organizing principle and you can't completely rely on laws to do the trick. Laws are always bent and tested by people. Taboos are stronger than laws, because taboos are those lines that 99% of people simply don't every cross in their lifetimes, because that would mean society would disown them.

Think about that for a little while and think about what you are doing when you secularize our society and ban expressions of religion among the elected leaders of our country. Leaders are our kids role models and they are the ones who are emulated. If they act in an immoral way, then that opens the door to everyone else to do the same. Why do you think there was such a backlash against Clinton over such a seemingly stupid and private thing like a blowjob? It wasn't the blowjob. It was that he was the world's role model and he proved himself to be human and eminently fallible, and ultimately immoral.
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