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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (2663)	10/25/2000 11:11:32 PM
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Changing my argument AGAIN? Are you not reading my posts to you? I am not arguing that atheists are more ethical than believers. I merely cited, in reaction to your outrageous implication that I had somehow conceded atheist moral inferiority -- <<OK, I see you've abandoned your argument that atheists are as ethical as believers.>> some studies that might be seen as relevant to the issue. I don't claim anything except that I have never noticed anything morally more impressive about the religious than I have about atheists, and am impatient with the implication oft made by the religious that they are that. The citations are of course studies of correlations that may not be cause and effect correlations. In fact, probably are not, imo. I would not have posted them again had you not made the statement quoted above. I do not take the position atheists are morally superior. I am convinced that my subjective impressions to that effect are explained by sociological circumstances (education, social class, the conscious intellectual process atheists have often gone through to arrive at their positions when they were often raised religious) rather than by a notion like that theism is itself, separate from the institutions which promulgate it, morally corrupting. I do NOT think that.