Ramaraksha
Senior Member
Here is an example as how our morals are so flexible
Theists react one way when it is THEIR religion and do a 180 when it is some other - crazy!
If you were out on the street and come across a crazy guy brandishing a huge knife and screaming that God told him to kill his family
you would be calling the cops to come lock him up!
But tell Theists that that guy's name is Abraham and they will sing his praises & might even give him a gun to make the job "easier"
That's all it takes it seems - a simple change in word, a name - from Crazy Guy to Abraham - seems to mess up our brains, morals, principles
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Had the pleasure of reading a book written by two PROFESSORS from Brown University (well, that explains their work)
singing praises of...
you would be calling the cops to come lock him up!
But tell Theists that that guy's name is Abraham and they will sing his praises & might even give him a gun to make the job "easier"
That's all it takes it seems - a simple change in word, a name - from Crazy Guy to Abraham - seems to mess up our brains, morals, principles
.
Had the pleasure of reading a book written by two PROFESSORS from Brown University (well, that explains their work)
singing praises of...
- Ramaraksha
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