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Originally Posted by GEaston
I don't equate morals with Christianity (or any religion) because there simply is no link.
People know the difference between right and wrong and that has nothing to do with whether you believe in the sun, the sea, Thor, or more "modern" religions if they can be called that.
Religion and faith are the primary cause of war in the modern world just as they were in olden times.
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You are being just a tad disingenuous GE, Margaret addresses the points so so well in her posts #179 & 180.
Religion has changed it's function with time over the course of human societies The original function of religion was explanation and social organisation. Origin myths like the book of Genesis are widespread to explain the universe, people and language diversity. The ancient Greeks who identified correct scientific phenomena, incorrectly invoked supernatural agents to explain sunrise, sunset, tides, winds and rain. Yes increasingly religions original explanatory role has increasingly been userped by science but you can't refute the social organisation aspects of any religion then or now within that has to be education and morals or they would have self destructed.