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1. Johnny Null (johnnynull@freezepeach.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 12:17:05 UTC Johnny Null
   Secular ethics, weak? Utter nonsense.
   http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Morality
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq2C7fyVTA4
   
   Religions are fundamentally ethical? That's nuts. Christianity teaches women are less than men and you should be open to killing your child if you hear voices. Islam teaches you to cut off women's clits.  A simple search reveals plenty of examples of Buddhists behaving badly.
   
   Ethical religion? Pretty much a contradiction of terms.
   • Johnny Null (johnnynull@freezepeach.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 12:52:01 UTC Johnny Null
     @h11
     >Implying everyone is going abandon their religion
     >Implying everyone is going to adopt the same morality
     >Implying humanity is completely rational
     >Implying that study after study that's shown politics can override someone's thinking is incorrect
     
     I cannot defend all the killing governments sponsor to one degree or another. But, I know I'm entirely ignorant of what's happening in most of the world and simply getting rid of government all together because killing happens taking things to an illogical extreme.
     
     I'm also not certain one can say that governments have killed more than religious conflict. Even if religion has killed fewer, it's a huge, huge number. And if that IS case, because it's a slightly smaller number, religion is OK? What's your cutoff? Seems awfully arbitrary.
   • x1101 (x1101@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 13:37:41 UTC x1101

     in reply to

     @johnnynull Its almost like the issue is really about the codification of norms 2000+ years ago into unexamined doctrine.

     Johnny Null repeated this.
   • Johnny Null (johnnynull@freezepeach.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 13:49:34 UTC Johnny Null

     • x1101
     @x1101 Enjoyable meme.