Re: [blog] dead man talkin

Sylvia, TSRMW goes:

Clarification request: Are you suggesting that intelligent people who
do not believe that an unseen cosmic being not of our world who demands
that peeps worship strictly according to his set of (often
contradictory) laws, and threatens them with everlasting punishment if
they don't, might bop about committing highly anti-social acts if they
were not cowed by threats of punishment (say, five to seven years) from
their own society? Instead of those folks all being "cowards", couldn't
a sense of moral decency be more likely to keep them from a life of
crime?

It's far more likely, rationally speaking, that Man's innate sense of
morality caused him to create a god, rather than that some god passed
a divine morality down to Man. Why would any Creator care about false
witness, for example, or covetousness? Those are social concerns, not
divine ones. The Ten Commandments are obviously a codification of what
the society of the time desired from the law. So they got the
non-existent God to endorse them, thus giving them the divine stamp.

The funny thing is, people the world over, no matter what god they
believe in, or whether they believe in a god at all, all agree on that
basic code. How can that be? If they came from the God of Moses, how
come everyone else got them too?


--
Alan Hope
http://sour-grapes.tumblr.com/
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