As usual, Gilbert misrepresents my position and my answer to his question. He has no substantive or meaningful argument, and no rational answer to his own poorly framed question - "What's the Purpose to life?; and What happens after death".
Moreover, his post has no connection with what I stated earlier under this thread. As far as morality or social conscience are concerned, as I have stated earlier, neither depend on the presence or absence of religious belief. Briefly, this is so because of the following: 1. Moral human behavior predates theistic and atheistic religious belief by several thousand years. 2. Rudiments of morality are present in several species of higher mammals. 3. Religious texts have prescribed many types of immoral activities. 4. Religious authorities and bodies have committed many types of immoral activities. 5. Religious justification continues to be used for the commission of various crimes and atrocities in the world to this day. 6. Theistic and atheistic belief has provided a cloak of immunity for thousands of criminals. 7. Theistic and atheistic ideologues are responsible for most of the genocides committed in recorded history. No religion, ideology or faith of any kind provides a rock-solid moral compass. Religious texts are full of immoral advice, which if taken literally, could wreak havoc in the modern world governed by humaritarian ethics and rational morality. The proposal that religions requiring compliance with some multiply revised list of ten commandments, provide a better or more rock-solid moral compass than beliefs following a prescription of seven moral suggestions, is entirely unconvincing. No genuine knowledge-based rational argument has been provided for any such contention. Cheers, Santosh --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Santosh's post makes interesting reading and in some > ways is thought provoking. His response as an > atheist / agnostic to my post about: What's the > Purpose to life?; and What happens after death", was > interesting. It was short and what one would expect > from an atheist / agnostic - Nothing, Nyet, De nada, > and Kaput. > _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
