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

To: Solon who wrote (17533)	5/24/2004 8:57:23 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Are you "Saved" ? savedmovie.com Coming out soon , getting pretty consistently great reviews for a teen movie .Recieved two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper ....should do fairly well at the box office with the younger set Of course the "faithful" will think it is about criticizing their religion and try to ward off the demons of Hollwood with loud indignant protests of denounciation ...but then again they thought that "THE SIMPSONS" were demonic at first too....but then they "evolved" enough to finally see the genius behind satire. <G> Couldn't possibly be about the stupidity of bigotry and phoniness could it ? Or charismatic preachers filled with their own self aggrandized prophetic ego~trips of being once saved and always saved ! My bet it will do well... So don't have a cow man ! ;-)

To: Solon who wrote (17533)	5/25/2004 10:36:24 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<<<"Having reduced Man to just a product of evolution you (not I) have removed the ability to "judge between right and wrong".>>> You are jumping on the word "ability" and saying what that means is that you can't choose anything. Given the overall context of our discussion, that's obviously not how I meant it. What I am saying is; if evolution is all there is (no God) then there is no obligation to do one thing over another. In fact right and wrong become meaningless words since there is no ethically compelling "ought". Therefore you can choose whatever you wish but you cannot say it is right or wrong in any meaning-full way. So what does that leave???? "<<<The logical choice from a strict evolutionary standpoint is "might is right".>>>" To say it another way; since there is no "RIGHT" whatever you do is. "If such a concept was logical we could discuss it! But you are being ridiculous!" I imagine you saying that as Sylvester the Cat to Tweety bird... "That's ridicoloos" "Might is Right" is a value held by people with ultimate power or people whom are moronic or insane." No; it's what happens when all ethical constraints are removed. I have to run because I have to teach for the rest of the day.