Beorn
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i'm sorry...i honestly don't mean to read into what you've written. i guess i'm having a hard time understanding what you mean. it sounds like you think without faith in an afterlife that ones values are meaningless. that one would have no reason to chose right over wrong.
Oh I'm not offended I just wanted to let you know.
It sounds like your only considering the afterlife aspects of religion whereas I am speaking of religion as a comprehensive philosophy. Specifically here I'm considering the distinction between my religion and others like it that presume moral absolutes and other views that presume moral relativism. So here it's not the belief in an afterlife that is important but the belief in a universal law giver. Without a universal law giver there is no reason to argue anything one way or another because ultimately it just doesn't matter.