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Woks World
Monday, December 19, 2005
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Monday, December 12, 2005
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10349028/from/ET/ where a group of college atheists (Jackson) traded porn mags for bibles.
"...At the very least, what we're doing is trading something that's very, very bad [bibles] for something that's only moderately bad [porn]."
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CARLSON: The bottom of this, on your web site, you have a statement: "We find that morality should not be derived from religious texts." What should morality be ... what should it be derived from?
JACKSON: Well, morality is not derived from religious texts. Religious texts actually contradict each other. If you read the Bible, it contradicts itself on nearly every page. And the fact that people can decide which one to go with shows that they are getting their morality from somewhere else.
Morality is actually based off of empathy, and failing empathy, it's based off of fear of reprisal from the law. That is where morality comes from.
CARLSON: Yes. But the law, it's a circular argument. You need to think through it a little bit more, Thomas, because the law itself is based on at least a notion of abstract right and wrong, and that is not rooted in empathy or any emotion, but ... you know, an abstract belief that this is right and this is wrong because someone larger, in control, says so.
JACKSON: Well, no, that's not true. It's based off of things that are good for society. If citizens murder each other, this is bad for society. And you see this across the board in many nations.
Several religions have stumbled upon this, but it's not the religious text that's bringing this to people. They are finding this on their own, and societies that don't find this don't survive.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Thursday, December 01, 2005
I dislike this time of year. The consumer-ness. The family-ness. My inability to get a tan. I particularly dispise 'secret santa' or 'kris kringle' office thingies.
But i'm not going to justify why.
SO THERE
