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Jon replied to Mike's discussion 'Christian Assumptions. thoughts please? (ps, i'm new here)'"I've just had a thought. How old are you, Mike? Because a man handing out Bibles in a (presumably) public school in the U.S. surely breaches some sort of law?"
Jon replied to Mike's discussion 'Christian Assumptions. thoughts please? (ps, i'm new here)'"Why would you throw the book in the bin? It's a useful reference work. I'd have recommended just saying, 'No, thanks'; it was rather presumtuous of this man to offer you a Bible without comment, but hey. Free Bible."
Simon Paynton commented on Jon's blog post 'Debating (absolute) morality in Britain. Your thoughts?'"My own absolute morality is based on "anything is allowed as long as it harms no-one else". This is an absolute rule. "
Simon Paynton commented on Jon's blog post 'Debating (absolute) morality in Britain. Your thoughts?'"I know, Frank Skinner is an intolerant fool. I was referring to this quote from Richard Dawkins:
"I don’t think I want an absolute morality; I think I want a morality that is thought-out, reasoned, argued, discussed, and…"
Jon commented on Jon's blog post 'Debating (absolute) morality in Britain. Your thoughts?'"Dearest Simon,
Please read the blog posts in question."
Simon Paynton commented on Jon's blog post 'Debating (absolute) morality in Britain. Your thoughts?'"Jesus especially is a figure of love whose point of view people successfully use to come to good conclusions"
Simon Paynton commented on Jon's blog post 'Debating (absolute) morality in Britain. Your thoughts?'"Surely, ideally, the Christian God is a God of love, and Christians try and decide what He would what them to do, when making decisions.
So I think it can have a lot of value to use God's assumed wishes as a guideline in morality. "
Robert Karp commented on Jon's blog post 'Debating (absolute) morality in Britain. Your thoughts?'"His assumption that "atheistic assumptions of superior morality are false" is an inaccurate statement. We do not claim moral superiority. We claim that our concepts of morality are gained without the "guidance" of a someone…"
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The other day I wrote a post for a relatively new blog/magazine called hackeryblog, here in the UK. (http://hackeryblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/should-religion-inform-public-morality/) I'd be very interested in getting the ThinkAtheist community's feedback on it, and on the response offered by another hackeryblog author (…See More
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The other day I wrote a post for a relatively new blog/magazine called hackeryblog, here in the UK. (http://hackeryblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/should-religion-inform-public-morality/) I'd be very interested in getting the ThinkAtheist community's feedback on it, and on the response offered by another hackeryblog author (…
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