Jeff7
Lifer
- Jan 4, 2001
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Well they went and plugged that loophole by saying that suicide is bad.Long thread, so probably already mentioned but, why does right/wrong have to be determined by a higher power? The major moral issues (theft and violence) are pretty much universally agreed upon. There are a few small cultures that don't value possessions, but those tend to be tribes living away from society.
If you're truly a Christian who believes in the afterlife, why not just end this life now and join the kingdom of heaven?
And yet murder is still frowned upon, despite the fact that, in the religious context, they're doing someone a great favor by speeding someone's journey out of this miserable flicker of an existence.
If murder is muddling in "God's domain," then people who cause fatal car accidents should always be charged as murderers as well, unless someone wants to say that it was God who decided that the crash needed to occur, and therefore took control of the vehicle from the person who survived.
Nice. That led me to this.
Sometime around 48 minutes, and again toward the end, maybe 1:14:00, he also gets in a very nice argument about the value of the sort of scientific exploration that people always complain about. "Oh, why are we wasting money studying that? We've got problems now that need solving!"
Stop that exploration, and that study, and that investment, and we're still stuck pre-Stone Age.
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