On Jul 22, 5:17 pm, Roy Jose Lorr
comcast.net> wrote:> chazwin wrote:
>> On Jul 21, 6:22 pm, Roy Jose Lorr
comcast.net> wrote:>
>>>Gary Childress wrote:
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>>>>On Jul 20, 10:10 pm, "Daniel T."
earthlink.net> wrote:>
>>>>>Gary Childress
earthlink.net> wrote:>
>>>>>>Just curious how far alt.philosophy has turned into
>>>>>>alt.christianity.fundamentalism.
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>>>>>>What do others think? Is morality necessarily based upon religion?
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>>>>>No, however I think the reverse is true... Religion is necessarily based
>>>>>on morality.
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>>>>I agree. I think Religion has to be based upon morality in order to
>>>>flourish. An immoral religion will eventually break down of its own
>>>>inadequacies.
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>>>Then every human derived religion, meaning all religions ever practiced
>>>by humans has either 'broken down' or is on its way to breaking down.
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>> I think if you were to take the churchmen from the time of Henry VIII
>> (the guys that forced the breakdown of Catholicism and the creation of
>> the Anglican church) into the general Synod of the Church of England
>> Today, they would say it had broken down long ago.
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> Like life itself the breakdown is programed from the beginning.
Well given the axiom that nothing lasts forever this may well be true,
in a sense.
The word "programmed" implies an intention which is not there, though.
In fact that's not really true of life come to think about it. Decay
and change happen. All living systems are subject to this decay.
Things seem to live longer and longer, so that natural tendency is
being challenged in evolution as longer lived intelligent beings are
more likely to improve the survival of their progeny.
