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

To: average joe who wrote (17287)	4/26/2004 3:31:10 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I guess that is where good philosophy starts... What I find frightening...I run into people who imply that the ONLY basis they have for acting moral (i.e. treating others with requisite decency) is their belief that the Christian God (or the Islamic, Sikh, or other God) is watching them and intending to punish them for disobedience. Such people claim that their only basis for treating others with moral decency is their fear (or love) of whichever God they happen to believe in. Presumably, without a fear (or love) of God as their basis for acting with decency, such people would contemplate no distinction between one behaviour and another. I had such a person accuse me of having no moral basis because I did not embrace his particular religious dogma. Of course, he was projecting his personal moral beliefs as outlined above. Believing (as such people do), that people outside their particular dogma hold no moral basis, one could predict that the wielding of sufficient authority would encourage them to prohibit freedom of religion and to persecute and prosecute those with different ideas. It seems to me that society has some little experience with this attitude both past and present...