Why do right?

You try it. Good questions are a lot harder than bad answers.

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I don't judge, I question. I would like you to ask yourself how it helps you to survive, and what else might have the same effect.

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When a little green man parks his flying saucer on your lawn and says, "Take me to your leader," will you ask to see the nail prints in his hands? When he tells you to kill your people to make room for his, will you do it?

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That's a little unfair, isn't it? You demand proof from the extraterrestrial you have met but not from the One you haven't met?But the point here is about right and wrong. If the little green man could prove that he was the One you've been calling God, would you accept his word about right and wrong?If it turned out that you had misunderstood his message and had right and wrong all turned around from what he wanted, would you just change your ideas about right and wrong?That seems like a much weaker foundation for right and wrong than plain old survival.

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Then I certainly did misunderstand. I was under the impression that you had been saying all along that your conscience comes from God.

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But we're not talking about changing your allegience from one god to another. We're talking about the origin of your conscience.What if the alien had gotten to you first? What if he had told you you have keep slaves and sacrifice virgins? Would that be what your "conscience" would tell you? If the Christian God came along later and told you to love your neighbour, would that oppose your conscience?

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That's not what I asked though. I'm trying to get at the origin of your conscience. If you "discovered" your conscience for the first time, wouldn't that suggest that it's deeper than your beliefs?You claim that your conscience "guides" you to your God, but every believer in every God makes the same claim. That suggests that our conscience isn't just a mere message from God - it's something more fundamental, from a deeper level than mere belief in God - a biological level.As people have been trying to explain to you.

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So you keep saying... and saying... and saying.... But what is that reason? All you've done is handwave away everybody else's reasons without proposing anything better.

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