A secular moral system is better than a static religious one.

MayCaesar

I do not disagree with anything you wrote. I would only add that a secular system is better than any non-secular system, not only a religious one: for instance, national socialism and communism champion moral systems that are not religious on their face, but share a lot of similarities with religion such as intrinsic dogmatism, moral authoritarianism and statism.

Contrary to the popular opinion, there is nothing special about morals that make approaching them logically unfeasible. When it comes to questions of physics, or chemistry, or history, we approach them scientifically, employing a rigorous logical methodology consisting of making falsifiable hypotheses and testing them both theoretically and experimentally. Questions of morals are no different, and there is absolutely no reason to assume that the assumption of existence of some "higher power" dictating them is required for them to be studied and practiced.

Barnardot

@MistakenIdentity Your agument is totally wrong because any text is open for any one to interpret the way they want it and its just not the Bible thats like that it is the constitution as well. For example every one has the right to beer arms. So to many people it meens that we have a right to defend ourselves but to  the red necks that means they have a right to go round in there mat black ram pick ups with all the lights on top and drink gallons of beer then go round and shoot up every thing that gets in there way.
You see the Bible was written by many people a long time ago over a long period of time and they knew what was going on and what was right and what was wrong after all that. So thats why the Bible stands the test of time. But when you get federal laws its all about whose money speaks louder than tthe others and when some body elses money speaks louder then they change the law to suit them. Those wise old guys 2000 thousand years ago would laugh at the law makers today and think what the. Those guys cant make there minds up and it looks like they have never learnt any thing except how to put more fethers in there nest.

John_C_87

@Barnardot

Psst........Hey! let me whisper this in writing for you..........so no one can hear it.................it's bear Arms, not beer arms, We probably should have a United States Constitutional right replacing all Nuclear missiles with lethal alcohol games of Quarters. we have a right Constitutional Amendment right to bear arms and a even bigger United States Constitutional right to perfect connections to establish justice which ensure the people as a common defense towards the general welfare.

jack

MistakenIdentity said:

A secular moral system is better than a static religious one. Here we compare the two.

Thoughts?

Hello M:

I'm not sure there's agreement on what's moral, and what's not..  So, let's compare the two, on the ground. 

Is a system that "champions" abortion moral, or is it not?  It's a yes or no question.

excon