On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Stephen Black went:
> I'm not willing to concede that religion teaches us about morality
> (in an absolute sense, whatever that means), only that it imposes a
> particular view on us which is defined as moral. Unfortunately, from
> my perspective, the view it imposes often leads to teachings which
> are instead _immoral_.
Yes, and I think that this is because the most widely practiced
religions predicate their moral systems on untestable postulates, such
as the belief that death will be followed by an afterlife.
Personally, if I have to make a moral decision, I want to begin by
rounding up the established facts, clearly distinguishing what I know
from what I don't.
> The case involved a set of conjoined twins, one of whom could not
> survive alone, yet was killing the other member of the pair.
> Religious authorities were apparently unanimous in concluding that
> both should die ("God's will").
Excellent example.
--David Epstein
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