> G Money wrote: > > Many people are born into religious settings, and have their morality > taught > > to them in the context of religious teachings. To these people, it > can be > > very difficult to understand how morality can be separated from the > > religious teachings...because the two have been intertwined for as > long as > > they have known.
I agree... that doesn't excuse it, but I agree. This is why there's such a big push amongst atheists organizations to "get the word out". Not to rub people's faces in it, but to be open and honest about it. The old ideal of "I shouldn't mention that I'm atheist because it might upset somebody" needs to go away. Current polls show that about 12% of Americans are "non-religious" (atheist, agnostic, humanist, etc). Many (perhaps most) of them believe in that wonderful, nebulous "something" but are not practicing any religion (and so, we might assume, are not receiving any religiously-based moral teachings). Of course you only have to look at the religious polls of prisoners to see that atheists don't make up any larger percentage of prison populations... so either atheists are just as moral as those with religion or their all master criminals, unable to be brought to justice! Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245956 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
