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(can't reply to your comment because hacker news hates discussion) so you only tell victims nice things to make them feel better? Interesting. That's exactly
by toolz 10y ago
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so you only tell victims nice things to make them feel better? Interesting. That's exactly what everyone does regardless of faith. It's almost as if that's a universal human trait and not something exclusive to your religion.
But keep telling yourself that your actions make sense because you have the context of christianity and no one else has any idea wtf is going on in this world.
- humanrebar 10y agoThe fact that mankind shares common decency doesn't invalidate any particular theology. If anything, it sort of undermines physicalist philosophies, since common decency is just an illusion or evolutionary trait (and at some level involuntary) if reality is just random matter plus time.
- CamperBob2 10y agoSocialization is perfectly adequate as a basis for everything you've talked about, though. Otherwise, you couldn't trust your dog not to kill and eat your family the moment your back is turned. And some ongoing research has even suggested that pure altruism exists in a cross-section of the animal kingdom. No need to postulate supernatural forces when we can't say we fully understand the natural world yet.