The Double Standard of Religious Morality

The intelligent man with the tattooed face: http://www.youtube.com/variablast

DeScioli, Peter and Kurzban, Robert. "Why Religions Turn Oppressive: A perspective from evolutionary psychology." Skeptic. Vol. 15 No.2 2009. Pgs 38-41.



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[007lamiss]

@007lamiss just trying to make you see how your generalizations and stereotyping, based on your own interactions w a few- what you call- "religious" people is too subjective to make your observations and the theories of "skeptic magazine" right. i am a christian and how you present yourself aesthetically does not move me one way or the other. i am only moved if you choose to harm.

[007lamiss]

social control is social control whether it's hiding behind religion, government policy, or corporate media. it's no fault of religion that people abuse a message for their own agendas. this whole subordination thing is a human flaw imposing on divine word that is shared across many religions. its not helpful to anyone to say their religion is by nature, bad. many people who ascribe to a faith/spirituality do it because helps them, and not because the care if you have a lip ring and they don't.

[SvenJonnas]

do u know ur chick?

[tjones590]

I'd like to say that relativism does have certain drawbacks, a prominent one being that it leaves you with little grounds to change anyone's behavior. Despite some variation, most societies and cultures share fairly similar moral codes with regard to killing, stealing, etc.

[Sam10947]

IF this dumb fuck says that morality is relative, then u ought to read more on that subject. Morality inherently has objective ones.

[Sam10947]

there si no double standard of morality, that which u determine as immoral in religion, isn't because u r not in the position to do so. If u r religious u take the moral from above, u on the other hand u model animal for behavior. so the difference would automatically create a variance

[spencersite]

your lip ring F**king rocks.

[asnabelgur]

@GeorgiaIsOnMyMind I am personally not an atheist,but an agnostic.An atheist rejects a belief in God in the same way he rejects a belief in fairies.Atheism maybe is an idealogy becouse there are so many people out there that believe in a deity or deities,but in a world where almost everyone would be an atheist or an agnostic,atheism would not be considered a idealogy in the same way not believing in trolls is not a idealogy.

[GeorgiaIsOnMyMind]

@asnabelgur

I'd say many individuals, both atheists and non atheists would disagree with you there. The very fact that there is a theological rejection shows its an ideology. If it wasn't, you wouldn't have 'missionary' atheists; I can them "missionary" because they take up chats, blogs and youtube videos in order to denigrate other religions and argue their 'falsehood' because they feel their atheistic ideology is superior. Atheism is very much an ideology.

[asnabelgur]

@GeorgiaIsOnMyMind Atheism is not a ideology.

An atheist:Someone who does not believe in God or gods.THAT'S IT.THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO IT.