Reply #60: Wow - Am I the only one who reads these things? [View All]

[ChairOne]

The original question WAS NOT "what does religion offer to "you" "

The original question WAS:

"What belief about God would make you want to be nice to other people?"

Sheesh. Maybe I should start believing in god - just to become more tolerant of people making shit up.... Waitaminute - that's not something a person *should* be tolerant of..... ok, nevermind...

And on the original question (the real one, not the make-believe one), it contains an implicit claim, that the antecedent is *relevant*, ie, that some belief or other in god is needed in order to want to be nice to people. And that, as I have said, and you have not responded to, choosing instead to make up questions and call them "original", is a ridiculous inference.

Yoo "would offer the view that our judgement of what is good, kind, tolerant, etc. is a reflection of religous morality"? OMG - are you serious? lol

Um, both "the continued existance of slavery" (sic) and "cannalbalism" (sic) are routinely justified by reference to religous dogma. Not a big history buff are you (despite your inclination to grand historico-philsophical claims)? Well, except for the good book, of course...