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Old 07-01-2008, 09:38 AM
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Does Morality Do a Good job of Promoting Religion? Do moral people tend to be more religious than immoral or amoral people? Are morals needed to establish a religion? Do morals just follow the religion of the moment?
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Old 07-01-2008, 09:39 AM
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What moral people? I wouldn't want to be part of a religion that was founded by PEOPLE.
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Old 07-01-2008, 09:54 AM
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Old 07-01-2008, 10:14 AM
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No, no, no, and no.
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No, no, no, and no.
Hey, you copied my answers! No fair!
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Mixing morals and religion is like mixing gasoline with fire. People that require a religion in order to have morals are very immoral indeed!
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