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Originally Posted by Terrible Lizard
People can believe whatever their twisted minds can conceive, which is a point of this thread. The point is that since human mental and physical ideas having a set purpose, the same could be said of humanity. Not created for a specific purpose, but the gun-smith seems to find purpose for himself in making an object with no direct purpose. The same could be attributed to the idea of God.
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Of course purpose is self constructed, but there are certain things we can't help - things that happen whether we like them or not, whether we can explain them or not, or whether we can recognize a purpose or not. I don't claim there's a purpose to morality, what I do claim is that it exists. It exists so plainly that it's just as difficult to deny as my existence as a physical being. That means we don't need to teach our children to share or to do unto others - you can see at such a young age children doing those very same things without instruction. Nothing philosophical about it. If we attempt to intervene, for example, by subscribing to a religion that contains 2,000 year old moral "teachings", we can succeed in diminishing our morality by smothering it with nonsense, which is why religion should go away.