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Re: (TFT) Daily Life...
On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Mark Tapley wrote:
At 18:38 -0400 10/3/11, gem6868 wrote:
If I really wanted to get your sheep, I'd remind you that you'd
have no
sense of morality whatsoever if it wasn't for "the church" and it's
Judeo-Christian beliefs.
Hm. That depends on how you define "morality"; certainly if Judeo-
Christian morality is the only one that qualifies, the statement is
true (but tautological).
And what about just plain old "judeo-"? Not to mention morality being
present, based upon our knowledge of ancient societies, to one extent
or another morality has been with humans since before civilization at
all.
Feudal Japan had codes of behavior, to which the word "morality"
could easily be applied. Harsh ones in some respects and not by any
means the same as the Judeo-Christian ones, but serving many of the
same functions.
Hindu India had codes of behavior, same notation. The Pacific
islanders had tabus, same notation. Many American Indian tribes (not
all) had codes of behavior, same notation.
Judeo-Christian morality has a lot to recommend it, and I am
grateful for its legacy, but it's by no means impossible that we'd
have something comparable without the Church.
Indeed, look at all the people who follow Abrahamic morality (I find
this term to be more proper, given that Judaism is also 'judeo
christian,' though not christian, and islam is, for most muslims,
basically the same ideas) that have never had anything to do with
catholicism.
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