Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
No way would I covet my neighbour's arse!
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
If morality involves not murdering people, it seems to be inversely related to how religious a country is.
Ah, then you would have to define murder by somebody's standards. Head hunters didn't consider killing people murder. Hmm....I wonder if they even had a murder law. ooo research...
Everything is relative.
Ah, then you would have to define murder by somebody's standards. Head hunters didn't consider killing people murder. Hmm....I wonder if they even had a murder law. ooo research...
Everything is relative.
Yes there can. I refute the contrary position thus: I am a moral atheist. In fact I am an atheist largely because many aspects of Christianity seem immoral to me.
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in my personal experience, the nicest people I have known (and I have said this many times over the last thirty years) are American people.
Ah, then you would have to define murder by somebody's standards. Head hunters didn't consider killing people murder. Hmm....I wonder if they even had a murder law. ooo research...
Everything is relative.
Last time I met a head hunter he was only after my soul.
If morality involves not murdering people, it seems to be inversely related to how religious a country is.
In actuality, is this possible today? I would say not likely because religious principles are so ingrained in Society that those religious principles seep into everyone's morals. No one is born with a pre-set mature level of morals. The baseline morals of all children are laid down by parents and Society. When the child grows up and approaches adulthood, they are mature enough to question and sort through the upbringing they were given. By then however, it is too late, the religious influence has already colored your own morality.
Another thing to consider is how to distinguish between what is a religious principle and what is a purely humanist principle. I think most everyone would agree that murder is wrong. Religious people point to religious reasons as to why. Humanist people point towards purely mundane reasons why. Yet when looked at from above, the affect is similar on Society. Can you say which influenced your own morality?
Yet when looked at from above, the affect is similar on Society.