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Should any religious body be the sole moral authority?

I seriously don't give a fuck whether they believe in a god as long as they don't believe in stupid shit like creationism or taking the Bible literally and applying it nowadays.

And no there are many theists in Europe.
 
Music Dragon said:
(We've been here before, haven't we, Gollum?)

Well, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there whose religious belief keeps them going and makes them happy. As long as these people don't cause anyone any harm (at least not as a result of their religion), believing in God is a good thing, however "incorrect" it may be.

As far as I'm concerned, everything that promotes well-being and causes no harm is more or less good.
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This is exactly what I meant. If it doesn't harm anyone else, I don't think anyone really cares what religion someone believes in. But the thing is that some of these beliefs DO cause harm, and maybe if these people learned that tossing that three-year-old into a volcano wouldn't make it rain, they would stop...well, tossing three-year-olds into volcanoes.
 
yes, we know, but how are we going to teach them?
they've known it to be right for all of their lives; it's not going to be easy.
 
EvilCrazyMonkey said:
yes, we know, but how are we going to teach them?
they've known it to be right for all of their lives; it's not going to be easy.
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True. Meh, what I said was mostly hypothetical anyways...

What I meant was that it's really hard to just automatically respect all differing ways of life, especially when it involves this kind of thing.
 
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