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Nikolai psalmos at swissinfo.org
Wed Dec 6 05:45:00 GMT 2006


Senectus . wrote:
> Ahh right, and of course only religious people have any morality.

Red herring. The claim is rather - only religion can *account* for 
morality. The question then becomes what religion is a true one. 
Sometimes people go to war when they disagree on this one (although for 
fairness' sake it should be mentioned people go to war for all kinds of 
reasons, in fact, it seems to me that's what people do all the time, go 
to war).

> All Atheists are corrupt and morally devoid individuals as they have 
> nothing to live for but themselves.

Actually, Christianity claims that all individuals, save one person, are 
corrupt. But it is also true that atheists have a special mentioning in 
the Bible and are called fools, for example by King David in Psalm 14.

> If you don't have faith in a/your invisible best friend you can't have 
> any understanding of what faith is?

I didn't make that claim, however, it's worth mentioning that you need 
to realise one very funny thing - you have faith in so many invisible 
things you'll have trouble even counting them. Or, if you study a bit of 
philosophy, you'll soon discover that what you perhaps so confidently 
call knowledge (as opposed to faith) is nothing but a specie of faith, 
i.e. you only *believe* that such is such and such even though at times 
you prefer to say you *know* that such is such and such.

Nikolai



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