.
Yes, they would contribute much more. Imagine all the poverty and
other social problems we'd have if there were no government programs
to prevent them. Poverty is pretty useful in motivating people to
give. (It also seems useful in giving us a reason to talk about the
relation between morality
At 4:49 PM -0500 4/11/01, Timmerman, Thomas wrote:
Paul Brandon wrote:
And finally, the volume of social services delivered
publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately.
I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered
services were funded by passing a
At 11:37 AM 04/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Though it is an unpopular view, I, like Jim Clark, believe religion has no
special hold on morality. In case you missed it, here is an interesting
article by New York Times science writer Natalie Angier that touches on
this issue:
Hello,
David Myers wrote:
But across individuals, religiosity (as indexed by such things as
participation in faith communities or self-rated importance of religion)
correlates with intentional altruism. While the correlations between faith
and
altruism/happiness/health seem pretty well
You know, I think we have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the
bath water. First, there is inherent in all religions a fundamental
problem: frail, fallible human beings are being "called" to carry out
angelic missions. Second, there is a vast difference between the
fundamental
From: Mike Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: morality and religion
At 09:34 PM 04/09/2001 -0400, Stuart Vyse wrote:
Though it is an unpopular view, I, like Jim Clark, believe religion has
no special hold on morality.
Indeed, for me morality has always been the domain of philosophy
At 9:27 AM -0400 4/11/01, Dave Myers wrote:
This is, indeed, a very stimulating critique of religion. Enough so that,
some
time after reading it, I penned a response, which, coincidentally, was just
distributed electronically today by the University of Chicago's Public
Religion
project (see
Paul Brandon wrote:
And finally, the volume of social services delivered
publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately.
I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered
services were funded by passing a collection plate or
staffed through volunteer hours.
At 09:34 PM 04/09/2001 -0400, Stuart Vyse wrote:
Though it is an unpopular view, I,
like Jim Clark, believe religion has no
special hold on morality.
Indeed, for me morality has always been the domain of philosophy, but
I'll leave the details to Theodore Schick, Jr., Professor of Philosophy
at
Though it is an unpopular view, I, like Jim Clark, believe religion has no
special hold on morality. In case you missed it, here is an interesting
article by New York Times science writer Natalie Angier that touches on
this issue:
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