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Sean Faircloth:
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Christianity "understands" nothing when it comes to nature. It has nothing at all to say about that natural world whatsoever. Neither do other religions.
Indeed. They have been "endowed" just as other creatures have been endowed with a moral sense by the slow process of evolution. This is not only well understood and researched, it is by a country mile, the best explanation we have for morality. It fits.
Unfortunately there is no evidence whatsoever for whatever is meant by god. None at all. It is an unnecessary, non-parsimonious, non-explanation to say that god poofed morality into us, even more so given that we have good evidence that morality is part of our evolutionary heritage. God explains nothing. He is superfluous and there is no reason to believe it exists.
Unaided? What's that? Society and communities aid us in bringing about the Zeitgeist and we all have a sense of what is wrong and right based upon fairness which is probably derived from our evolutionary heritage.
There is no principle to what you are writing. None at all.
God (who doesn't even exist) has revealed ... nothing.
The church has been declaring by fiat that they are one and the same. You may have swallowed that but the merest scrutiny should disabuse anyone of this nonsense. The enlightenment which trashed the contents of the bible and resigned it to myth status has steadily been showing that the "truth" is what we can demonstrate with a degree of repeatability and independence. The only "truth" left over the church is found in perverted and corrupted (theological) philosophy.
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