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Originally posted by Dragonlich
You derive your moral authority from a possibly-nonexistant divine source; I derive my moral authority from a definately existing cultural system. I do not need a higher authority than that; I *know* some things are bad, because my culture says they are. That is all I need.
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Who is to say that your "definitely existing cultural system" is correct?
While I do not defend a relgious system per se, the statements that you are making all come down to whether humans have a system for judging inherent right/wrong or if social deviance is, in fact culturally relative.
Your cultural stigmas carry no weight in some parts of the world just as theirs would not carry any weight in ours.
Cultural relativism is a major issue in Social Deviance...which is inextricably linked to theism/atheism/agnosticism...
Personally...as a scientist....I feel from my studies/readings/wonderings so far...that religion as we know it is a unique product of humankind....however, I think if we were to discover another society in this universe at the same evolutional level as the earth, similar beliefs would be prevalent...
I personally feel that it is strange that the closer we proceed to a "solution" to all of the physical problems of the universe, the farther we receede from an explanation...
I do not believe in organised religion, however, I think that (in the end, and by cause and effect) there must be something that created this "bit" of the universe or this universe itself for us to live in...and the infinity on both ends of the scale...
wow...i confused myself there
