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

To: Greg or e who wrote (3781)	12/1/2000 7:58:23 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

I don't make a distinction between rules and morality I say they are the same THING. That is not a distinction. The similarities are not all that striking, but then maybe Mr Lewis didn't know very much about sociology. The reason it is hard to come to a decision is that in different societies different moralities exist. CS Lewis was an interesting and gifted man, but comparative sociology was NOT one of his talents. I am NOT talking about thieves and liars- who are, at least in our culture, by definition breaking the "rules" (although I can understand why you might want to sneak them in as if they were germane, but they aren't)- I am talking about cultures, and there are some, where lying is expected, and part of the morality. Cultures extremely different from our own, where the unthinkable in our culture, is the norm in theirs. It is very silly to think your religion is supreme, when there are hundreds of religions all claiming the same thing. I don't expect you to see it- you are, after all, trapped inside your belief. You have no way to think outside your box. I'm sure I've got my own boxes, but religion doesn't happen to be one of them.