^^this^^
is precisely what i mean. it uses it's own set of values to attempt to dis-prove someone elses set of values. ultimately working at cross-purposes.
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Just Flange, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:02,
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Granted...
Moral outrage won't work to prove the atheists' point. However, it does work against the kind of fundie who thinks - mistakenly - that you need god for morality, and that Christian (or Islamic, or whatever) morality is the same as morality period - and it works by showing that Christian (or Islamic, or whatever) morality, interpreted strictly, is counterintuitive. So if you want to keep your intuitions, then you have a problem.
Remarkably few mainstream believers, I've found, will bite the bullet and ditch their intuitions. They prefer to think that their god agrees with them, rather than the other way around.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:06,
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