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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
Again, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that without God, there's nothing to stop you from dropping all your morals the moment they no longer agree with the situation. We live in a society where acting morally does benefit you the most. This is partly because we live in a society constructed around Judeo-Christian moral codes, which in turn depend largely on the Greeks. But if our society crumbled and all of a sudden money didn't mean anything and everyone had to physically compete for resources, how would you justify being good if it meant starving or being killed?
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When has that
ever not been the case? Followers of every major religion kill when they want to, and justify that killing with their religious book. If you think the belief in God overrides human nature, you're in for a surprise. What the belief in God
does is it slows moral progress and often justifies
evil in the society we live in today, where we don't need to physically compete for resources. How do you think societies formed in the first place? People agreed to give away total freedom for protected-but-limited freedom. The same would happen if this society was to break down. Again, God would be irrelevant to the way we'd act, we'd just expect rewards when it was all over.