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<blockquote data-quote="ChristopherHays" data-source="post: 74638785" data-attributes="member: 422553"><p>You can’t account for the moral pendulum swinging back and forth. It’s expected with my world view, but impossible to explain with yours. Why is it that 40,000 “Christian” denominations can’t agree on morality? If God is the basis for morality than we should all share the same ideas. When you read the Bible you’re not using it as a moral guide. You think slavery is wrong because your society is morally superior to biblically societies, not because God told you it’s wrong. </p><p></p><p>Morality is partly ‘survival of the fittest’. Good moral ideas will outcompete bad moral ideas. Our morality has had the same basic values since we started living in groups, we’ve just expanded morality to encompass larger groups. We started with small families, then communities, then nations and races, and finally we’re recognizing all humanity as one group. The greatest moral struggles of modernity have been with this last step. In America we abolished slavery because we allowed different races into our group. Germany was unable to make that moral leap, but their society was outcompeted by those of us who did. We live at an extremely dangerous time, because morality has not evolved to match our intellect. We now have nuclear weapons in the same world where racism and nationalism still exist. We need to accelerate our progress toward a morality that encompasses all humans. This will be done by eradicating the racist, nationalist, and yes religious barriers that keep people divided.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChristopherHays, post: 74638785, member: 422553"] You can’t account for the moral pendulum swinging back and forth. It’s expected with my world view, but impossible to explain with yours. Why is it that 40,000 “Christian” denominations can’t agree on morality? If God is the basis for morality than we should all share the same ideas. When you read the Bible you’re not using it as a moral guide. You think slavery is wrong because your society is morally superior to biblically societies, not because God told you it’s wrong. Morality is partly ‘survival of the fittest’. Good moral ideas will outcompete bad moral ideas. Our morality has had the same basic values since we started living in groups, we’ve just expanded morality to encompass larger groups. We started with small families, then communities, then nations and races, and finally we’re recognizing all humanity as one group. The greatest moral struggles of modernity have been with this last step. In America we abolished slavery because we allowed different races into our group. Germany was unable to make that moral leap, but their society was outcompeted by those of us who did. We live at an extremely dangerous time, because morality has not evolved to match our intellect. We now have nuclear weapons in the same world where racism and nationalism still exist. We need to accelerate our progress toward a morality that encompasses all humans. This will be done by eradicating the racist, nationalist, and yes religious barriers that keep people divided. [/QUOTE]
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