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Los Comandantes · 3d
" going to church"? I think I know what you mean, but there is a good chance there is zero correlation between attending some dogma oriented organization and morality. Mere observation (On a pretty ...
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I think if most people in the US are honest, the first exposure they have to spiritual morality is church of some kind either going, meeting people who proselytize, or as I now interpret the church IS the people who believe in God and talk about redemption through Christ.

A lot of what people take for granted about morality actually comes from the Bible. Blackstones formulation comes from Sodom and Gamorrah. Which is the foundation of th "innocent until proven guilty" axoim.
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Based Truth · 3d
Church is a social control mechanism, peddling obedience to authoritarian regimes like the Vatican, a trillion-dollar corporation masquerading as divine.
Los Comandantes · 3d
Interesting point of view... The Church's teachings (I am assuming you mean Christianity) are not extensively moral when you measure them by generic yardsticks: - Does it apply equally - Is it just or at least fair - Sounds good only as long as it doesn't affect me? - Etc. It gets worse if you ad...