ah, I see where I stand.
clearly
I never said that a person isn't responsible for their actions while they're alive, I just said that I can't see a point to acting in anyway but for the benefit of the individual and maybe a few people they want to help subsist.
why not? If I believe that my God created the heavens and the earth and desires us to seek to help the helpless, feed the hungry, honor the neighbor as if he were ourselves and love our enemies, how is that any less made up than
???? It seems like it's justification and as mechanical as the stories in the Bible.
I guess I'm just far enough along in my journey to not understand the other side; be able to see the other side of river from wence I came.
I'm confident that we can still meet at bennigans for my country skillet
The beauty of the creation of man. Wonderful how we each hold different truths/beliefs to our heart, isn't it? My deal is, and maybe that's because all I've ever known is this, but without a back drop of faith and rules defined by the Divine Agent, I can't really explain the humanistic morality that I feel inside of me. I think that's the "seperation" I was talking about between habilis/neaderthalis and sapien sapien. you dig? The binobo monkey (our closest relative) does not have the ability to moralize it's decision to play with its pee pee or not eat that extra helping of ants because he's depressed and knows he's just putting on extra weight.
I think that inner morality that we feel seems like a clear sign of something deeper in our lives than 100 million years of evolution. hell, I don't know, I'm probably wrong. I don't believe I am, because of the things I can attest to and have seen, but who knows. Either way, because of my faith, I treat others in the way that you have described, however, I ascribe them to my God's desires and commandments. I think that's where we're at.
nice talking amigo.
ab.