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 Originally Posted by oskar
Name me one moral argument that can be derived from scripture that you could not make otherwise.
Then name me an immoral act you could derive from scripture that you wouldn't think to engage in otherwise.
It's about what "does happen". What "could happen" doesn't much help us.
What does happen is that when people believe certain things, they act them out. The question for religion is if it impacts what people believe (and thus how they act). I believe it does, and I believe the impact is powerful enough that the great prosperity of society can be credited in large part to Christianity. Also that the deterioration of Christianity results in unraveling prosperity, and that some historical unraveling of prosperity may have been due to "secularism".
Am I right? Who knows?
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