Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Do you need religion to be moral?
I'll reverse the question: is religiosity SUFFICIENT to grant morality? It seems not. Mafia members are religious, so were most nazis, so are suicide mass murders, rabid homophobes, and many devout churchgoesrs will happily cheat on taxes or their spouses. Religion doesn't make us moral. Natural law, society, make us moral. We don't need religion as such. We don't say to Madoff, to the Columbine killers, to a rapist "God will punish you" and leave it at that. We submit them to trial and punish them. In reality is your own conscience that's the origin of morals. How many of you abstain from evil (I.E. harming others) and give to charities purely because of the fear of hell or hope of heaven?
I'm with Kant: Starry sky above me, moral law inside me.
I'm with Kant: Starry sky above me, moral law inside me.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Ridiculous concepts: God hates what we hate
You know, maybe there IS an Entity who jump-started the Big Bang, triggered the Cosmic Inflation, fine tuned the Constants of Nature and gave Galaxies their spin. Imagine this Being in Its Cosmic Majesty endorsing all the petty prejudices of some fundamentalist sect in some planet of some Galaxy among millions. Imagine this Universal Demiurge unleashing an hurricane on a planet because in some nation someone tolerates what some petty bigots can't stand. Imagine this Hyperdimensional Engineer taking parts in some squabble between nations on this Planet.
How silly can you get?
How ludicrously presuming can you be, imagining that this supposed Ruler of the Cosmos preoccupies himself of what consenting adults in some planet do for sex and reproduction?
No, if there if such a God, what should He care? It is for Intelligent Species to set up their morals, using reason, justice and good sense.
How silly can you get?
How ludicrously presuming can you be, imagining that this supposed Ruler of the Cosmos preoccupies himself of what consenting adults in some planet do for sex and reproduction?
No, if there if such a God, what should He care? It is for Intelligent Species to set up their morals, using reason, justice and good sense.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The only writ sacred is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
I don't think our moral judgment should be linked to words written thousands of years ago by men living in a completely different historical, social, and cultural milieu. Let's read Koran and the Bible as literary works, but , please, don't refer to them for moral judgments! As if Greeks refers to the Iliad and Germans to the Beowulf. The only writ we should hold sacred is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
And to hell with religious fundamentalists. Their religions are no more fit for free men and women (expecially women).
And to hell with religious fundamentalists. Their religions are no more fit for free men and women (expecially women).
Monday, September 7, 2009
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