Underlying Philosophy

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dealed with this earlier in my message, but basically, it boils down to this: so what if it's bad for society? Where do you come off judging people who do bad things to society if you have no reason for bad things needing to be judged? You will reply again "IT"S JUST BAD FOR SOCIETY!!!". So is this a justification for punishing murderers? What if a murderers society is himself, and imprisoning him hurts his society?

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Sac,you have this completely backwards.What you believe comes from God comes from human beings. The source of religious moral teachings is ultimately humanity's own moral sense, projected onto deities. You have no more justification for your morals than atheists do, you merely think that you do.Bear in mind also that many modern people find the morality of the old testament repugnant - I certainly do. The rule about killing one's bad and disobedient children for example. And God himself kills wantonly, punishes the innocent and so forth. There is no justification to say that the old testament God is a moral being and that the many of the rules he gave the Israelites have any moral worth. Edited by Peepul, : No reason given.Edited by Peepul, : No reason given.

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The Tooth Fairy building a universe is just as unbelieveable as a fluctuation giving birth to a self-aware "I". Your dismay is the result of taking your philosophy way to seriously, whereby forgetting that we practically know NOTHING about anything as far as reality, existence and self-awareness are concerned.

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Why do you think your disbelief of the big bang and evolution is aligned with reality in any way?There is scientific evidence for the big bang and evolution, and that's why scientists hold the big bang and evolution to be provisionally true. There is no evidence for the tooth fairy, and likewise there is no evidence for God existing, or having intervened at any point in the development of the universe, let alone the diversification life.Unless you know better of course.