Originally posted by aretood2
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I'm not saying that atheists can't be moral, but rather question if a society can continue to perpetuate moral codes and ethical structures across several generations without some sort of grounding structure that religion provides. Even in atheist North Korea, a cult of personality has replaced religion to take it's place...to some rather nasty results.
I get what you are saying here tood, but let me ask you -personally- a different question. Do you need the -organization- of the church (any church) to validate your belief in God or Jesus? Are not the -human- structures of Church just as fallible as the cult of personality of NK or Stalin, or Hitler, or any other dictator?
The Bible spends an awfully long amount of time on everything but how the world works.
The stories surrounding thunder Gods seem to focus more on the morality or "moral of the story" type deal than to actually answer deep profound questions of ancient man as to how thunder happens. When we say "why" we mean as to "What is the lesson, the message for us to lead better lives".
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