
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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Re: Are you religious ?
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Originally Posted by Seekers
I was speaking about "good morality", and I realize that I should have chosen a more specialized vocabulary. I think what I meant was something like true morality, which must rest upon a foundation. Isn't that what connects faith and values, faith being the foundation, and morality that which emanates from God through the soul? Arguably there is also a cultural or ethnic element involved in what is usually thought of as morality, but I distinguish between agreement and true and grounded morality. Culture should encompass both, I think.
Building systems of thought will just about always create logical problems, but that's what I think.
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So there could be cases of people with no faith but with a "connection with God" that could be proved through their high moral values?
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