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Just to be clear, - religion teaches an absolutist system of morality (as opposed to, for example, consequentialist or utilitarian). If you subscribe to the religion, you are expected to accept the absolutist morality as preached and also bring up your children accordingly (think baptism incorporates some of this into the ceremony).
Personally, I find a value based moral system to be more reasonable than a system where one is expected to be able to accurately calculate the results of their actions (utilitarian / consequentialism, a moral system I've studied a good bit at university). I would also agree that there is such a thing as absolute right and wrong.
Christians base their values on their experience of the world, a world in which God is present.
As for baptism, Christians differ in respect to what age that people are baptised. Personally, I think adult baptism is better.I'm well aware as are the vast majority of people that it is the RCC in particular that prohibits contraceptives, it was "for example". Virtually all religions have prescriptions such as this.
What you mean is that Christianity, amongst other belief systems regard God's way as being better than the ways of mankind. This is true, and obviously true.Sorry, I accede you may be technically right here, - but I think most people accept that people in these times had (through no fault of their own) a very, very primitive understanding of how the world works.
This is the substantive point, arguing the technicality of point 2) is pedantism and irrelevant.
Certainly, the accepted nature at the time was not that the earth revolved around the sun. Most reasonable people will accept this.
Many people including myself will have found even more recent generations (our grandparents generation) etc. had some inane superstitions (banshees etc) that most probably emanated from a time when quite a bit less was understood about the world.
This is irrelevant to criticising the Bible. I would expect people to be familiar with what Christians actually believe before criticising them. Surely this is a fair standard to expect?
By the by, point 2 is very relevant in that it points out that you haven't done your homework
In my view the bible and much of religious teaching is an elaborate manifestation of such superstition (among other possible roots of religion, but thats a discussion for another day).
See above.Thats true. Sure weren't some of us brought up to go to mass constantly saying prayers, making confessions etc. I hadn't a clue what it meant until my teenage years and guess what when I was able to decide for myself like alot of others, we chose a different path to one which was rammed down our throats.
A similar analogy is like most girls are raised to wear the colour pink and when they get to teenage/adulthood when they can think for themselves they choose to wear other colours every day resulting in feck all adult girls/women wearing pink these days
I can't say I have any objections with this, as long as we realise that a "different path" doesn't necessarily lead to atheism. I'm not entirely sure that bringing children to church results in "ramming" anything down any throat. Perhaps in some cases it can be, but I'm still a skeptic in relation to this claim.0 -
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I can't say I have any objections with this, as long as we realise that a "different path" doesn't necessarily lead to atheism. I'm not entirely sure that bringing children to church results in "ramming" anything down any throat. Perhaps in some cases it can be, but I'm still a skeptic in relation to this claim.
Any path that they choose whether its still a Catholic path, a Protestant path, a Buddhist path etc or an Atheist path. Basically, its the time when we can choose for ourselves which we couldn't do when we were aged 5
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