Den 16. feb. 2006 kl. 15.33 skrev Collin R Brendemuehl:
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>Strange. I know a few people who have no religious belief, and
who are
>positioned in very different places in the political scale, but as
far as I can
>see they are just as moral in their lives as any religious
person. In fact
>some of them are better because they are opposed to any
differentiating of
>people because of religion or politics, so all are treated equal.
>
>It shows that peoples really don\t need religion to behave well in
a society,
>and I tend to be skeptical toward those who only behave because
their god has
>told them so. What happens if the god tells them otherwise?
>
>DagT
How is this strange?
The point I was making had to do with the broader systems -- that
the appearance of
organized intolerance by the various groups is not limited to
religion but also to the
secular (religion-free) world. You were speaking of individuals,
not of a system.
We were talking about 2 different things.
So, individuals don´t need religion to have morals, but systems do?
Even stranger .-)
But I agree with you in that organized intolerance may occur in any
system related to religion or ideology, and it is very hard to
imagine any system without it.
A follow-up discussion would be to evaluate the various belief
systems to ferret out "truth".
No, that discussion should question whether or not we need a belief
system at all. After that we might try to find the system that has
the least organized intolerance. As none of them represents a truth
that would be the natural choice to maintain peace.
DagT
