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Politics : Evolution
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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (68699)10/7/2015 7:13:23 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
So in effect they are stating that the propensity to disrespect reality and the mind directly relates to the disrespect for moral values. No wonder such a high proportion of religious people are being looked after as wards of the state in various prisons...

Religion naturally corrupts morals--as Paine and Huxley rightly observe.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

T. H. Huxley's formulation was

The foundation of morality is to ... give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
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