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Re: Do market based societies select for virtue? (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 1 Dec 2000 01:58:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> Bill Farkas wrote:
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> > Yet, it also has to be admitted what role the religion of a majority of a
> > societies population has had upon the assessment of decency. By saying that,
> > I am not referring to Christianity alone, but to any society that has a
> > dominant faith. Atheistic societies are far more barbaric than those
> > dominated by Islam, Budhism, Hinduism or any flavor.
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> I can't really figure out if there is any atheistic society. As I know
> of every society now has some sort of religion right now, as I guess but
> of course I'm not sure. I really appreciate if you give some living (or
> lived in some time) examples of that.
I was speaking mainly of communist/socialist governments that replace
religion with the state.
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> On the contrary, I know, as being a middle eastern, more than enough
> barbarism can find a place for itself in Islamic population, and just
> for the name of Islam.
I know what you mean, I spent 15 months in the Middle East and witnessed
much of it first hand.
> And I'm sure we also all know about Christianity
> based barbarism has a very large place in our written history, I mean
> crusades and plundering the whole earth in the name of god.
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> I always think that if a person chooses to be bad, can rationalize his
> actions by using his/her belief system, even can get support from other
> believers by insisting on that he/she done all those nasty things in the
> name of God, since too many people dare enough to being critical about
> god's words.
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> Selçuk
I like that you said, "if a person chooses to be bad", this is really the
crux of the whole matter of depravity.
Bill
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