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:::  That's not so.  Morality is the universal distinction of right and wrong
:::  regardless of the individual's perspective.  I'm sure Hitler and Stalin
:::  believed their causes to be 'morally right,' but I doubt you could find
::: twenty people in the world who would concur.
:  Well, actually, quite a few people in the past, and unfortunately, some
:  people in the present, believe those two were morally correct.
And most people (I don't have an exact number) have a conscience.  I don't
think the fact that murder is immoral in most societies is a coincidence.


:::  and wrong is there- you just have to search for it just like most truth.
:::  Truth, justice, right, and wrong aren't emotions.  They are logical
:::  conclusions which is one of the reasons they apply to everyone equally. 

:  Well, of all the things I've heard Christianity called, I've never heard
:  it called "logical", and I'd love to hear how you came up with the claim
:  that Christianity is logical.  However, I agree with your last sentence,
:  my morals are logical conclusions that came from combining my observations
:  of the world along with my desire to live a long and enjoyable life. 

The least logical step into understanding religion is "faith."  And not
EVERYTHING in the world is logical.  Was the "big bang" theory logical? 
When was the last time you saw a spontaneous cataclysmic explosion?  What
about a moral conscience.  I don't see any logic in that either.  Yes,
there is intuition needed to accept a religion, but there are some
fundamentals of science that are just "accepted" on a sort of scientific faith.

	Also, there are quite a few thinkers (theologians) who are trying to
logically explain religion.  For a little one-sided insight into
Catholicism, read St. Thomas Acquinas and St. Augustine.  They've been
criticized by some Protestant religions as being too logical, and they've
come up with some ideas that are weren't understood until the twentieth
century.  For example, St. Thomas Acquinas came up with the idea that
nothing existed before Creation because God created TIME.  Well, quantum
physics says nothing existed before the big bang since time was also
created then.

Hey!  I thought this thread was about sexism.  How did it turn into this?
(Please start venting your flames to git.talk.religion.  This mixing of
discussion with announcements is getting annoying...)
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					Winston Ho, CS Undergraduate
					gt6506b@prism.gatech.edu
       					Georgia Institute of Technology