08-17-2015, 09:39 PM
(08-17-2015, 04:53 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: I beg to differ....
Weak minds and perversion of religion is the issue.
Religion is the basis for morality and was paramount in culling the majority of barbarism in the world.
The basis of morality lies in society, not religion. You can find evidence of morality, or at least the roots of it, within chimpanzee societies. Religion has served many roles in our cultures around the world, and one of those has been to codify morality. But morality existed before religion.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
