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

To: briskit who wrote (16427)	2/27/2004 11:05:19 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Those are thoughtful sentiments. My focus however was on the obvious bias of almost all religions against other creatures. Just because we have (in the majority of births) lost our tails, we seem to consider our "difference" to inform an inherent superiority. The truth is that for all our long winded sermons and tortuous analyses of morals, we practice the amorality of nature--might is right. It may seem a small point, but so far as anyone knows, dolphins have never ranged the seas in civil strife--maiming and murdering one another in order to impose a different God or a "better" social and moral structure. And yet they have the most advanced moral structure and the simplest: They are helpful rather than hurtful. How many books do we need to analyze in order to get something so simple as to the question of "right relationship to others"? "There is some language work going on with primates, but it is fairly slow going so far." There is also work going on with cetaceans. Part of our difficulty in understanding language is our limited range of direct hearing.