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To: Ilaine who wrote (4769)2/27/2003 8:28:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 15992
 
OT:I don't think one needs to believe in something greater than oneself to have a moral code

I apologize if you perceived that I was saying that..

It's easy for a rational, non-religious, mind to perceive, analyze, and define, what they believe is good, and what they believe is evil.

But such higher levels of rationality have only developed in the past several thousand years, while tribes which have never had outside contact with civilization still possess a belief in "evil spirits" and by default, good ones as well.

So much was unexplainable to the primitive mind.. Things that we take as examples of common science and physical principles.

And there are those who opine that Science is the process of revealing God...

Hawk



To: Ilaine who wrote (4769)2/28/2003 5:39:46 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 15992
 
I don't think one needs to believe in something greater than oneself to have a moral code.

I agree with you.

And of course, "moral code" has nothing whatsoever to do with "good vs evil".

I really do not wish to go into this conversation of how "I am good and I am fighting evil" is a rhetoric firmly based in religion.


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