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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So, as we can see, religion does not give us a rock solid moral code that has survived unchanged for thousands of years, as was erroneously stated in this forum. The post below and the religious texts themselves provide us with ample facts in support of this contention. These facts are as follows: 1. Many ancient practices described in religious texts have now been regarded as barbaric and immoral, and have therefore been abolished by all modern secular nations. 2. The sanitized and abridged example of a common moral code of two major world religions has been shown to have been conveniently revised to generate three versions. 3. No rational moral basis has been provided for the first four commandments of one of the revised versions of this flexible code. 4. The argument that this religious moral code is immoral because of the associated prescription of death penalty, including death by stoning, for its violation, has not been refuted. 5. A new situational moral revision is presented, one that offers an unsubstantiated blanket denial of the existence of the penalty of death, in the face of explicit statements that can be seen even in modern revised versions of the ancient religious text in question. 6. The convenient denial of the amply documented death penalty leaves one to wonder what sort of adverse consequence takes its place in the modern sanitized revision of this pliable religious moral code. For example, what personal or public consequence awaits thou if thou "make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth"? Cheers, Santosh Mario Goveia wrote: > >The comments above refer to what the individual >unorganized atheists CLAIM to believe. If they make >an exception due to convenience, there would be no >personal or public consequences unless they break >some law............................................ > _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)