...> what it means to be human. Religion can be an efficient community for teaching some taught moralities. A more germane question today might be : Is Morality Possible Without Genetic Engineering? So far the... is today a whole lot shorter. Religion becomes almost moot or at least a... The answer is yes. Is morality possible if you need to refer to a book to know not to...

... Seems to me that historically, religions probably (prehistoric) began with superstition. ... rituals and rules of behaviour (religions) designed to please the gods. ...that have managed to avoid modern religions. What we can learn is that...around for about 100,000. Organised religions with authority figures who "have the... of human society. Does morality need religion. Its just the most ...

... do others think? Is morality necessarily based upon religion? No, however I think the reverse is true... Religion is necessarily based on morality...> Seems to me that historically, religions probably (prehistoric) began with superstition. ...> rituals and rules of behaviour (religions) designed to please the gods.... or not systems of morality or moral codes might have been ...

Gary Childress <grchildress@earthlink.net> wrote in news:0c03cb3d-7bf8- 448e-af6e-fe6efdf70897@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com: Morality must be possible without religion. How else could the religions have plagiarized it?

... do others think? Is morality necessarily based upon religion? No, however I think the reverse is true... Religion is necessarily based on morality. Seems to me that historically, religions probably (prehistoric) began with superstition. ...to rituals and rules of behaviour (religions) designed to please the gods. ... or not systems of morality or moral codes might have been ...

...> what it means to be human. Religion can be an efficient community for teaching some taught moralities. A more germane question today might be : Is Morality Possible Without Genetic Engineering? So far ... is today a whole lot shorter. Religion becomes almost moot or at least ... moving situations. The purest notion of religion must reside within the hypocritical cultural ...

... alt.christianity.fundamentalism. What do others think? Is morality necessarily based upon religion? ... and what it means to be human. Religion can be an efficient community for teaching some taught moralities. A more germane question today might be : Is Morality Possible Without Genetic Engineering? So far the... is today a whole lot shorter. Religion becomes almost moot or at least a...

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...the idea appear of a book of moral statues revealed by a personal god from... to change, what good can there possibly be in the study of Nature? ...he noted that whereas Dionysianism (archetypal Aryan religion) was based on works of theater claiming allegorical truth, the Levantine religions were based on works of literature ... get it, then it makes perfect sense to follow a Levantine religion.

...>>>>What do others think? Is morality necessarily based upon religion? This, I wrote: Why? Turn it around: are there... Or does it mean Good Christian Morals, like the "good Christians" who hung ... in my definitions, I attach the word "morality" to the notion of casting judgment on...things that really bothers me about western religion is the emphasis on "faith" over ...