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Old Jul 5, 2005, 08:37 pm   #56 (permalink) (top)
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This sounds like you are saying that morality is the animal behavior of a social animal.

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Why not. If morals are in fact societal, and not religious, then they are essentially animal, just like our sex drive and need for food. The case you atheists have laid out (and a pretty good one in my opinion) is that morals are essentially evolutionary. The argument could be forther made that the judaeo-christian commandments are just a codification of evolutionary instinct. Very interesting.


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