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  • jakelafort posted an update 7 years ago

    True, Simon, religious morality is not arbitrary. It promotes the interests of the entrenched powers. It reflects the mores of a bygone era in which moderns recoil. And yes it is about cooperation in the same way slavery is about having the slave cooperate with slave owner. Religious morality is a contradiction in terms. We don’t associate morality with Nazis. Why should we do it with religion? Religion has had a longer and it has done its utmost to perpetuate the stinking myth that religion equates with morality…that the irreligious are immoral.

    • I maintain that Jesus’ morality and the later morality of the Church are two different things. Jesus did away with social norms and concentrated on the small-group morality of cooperation, helping, fairness and unconditional love.