Quote Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo View Post
Interesting....
And sounds fair.
But are humans good by nature? Or they reached this high level of conscience due to centuries of obedience to some rules "given" by different Gods?
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It's an interesting philosophical question, that could take months to debate. In short, I don't think so, our evolution has taken us to a point where we are able, in fact need, to sustain a complex society. Just last night I watched a fascinating program on this - Brian Cox's Human Universe I think it is called, the episode about where we came from and how we went from primate, to person, from person fashioning simple shelter and spears, to building spaceships. Worth a watch whatever your religious persuasion, but everything contained in it made a huge amount more sense to me than an unseen creator who we should follow.

My other thoughts on god, is if one existed, how can I have this conversation? How can their be 3 branches of essentially the same religion at each other throats, and many more sects of those 3 who are prepared to kill for what is essentially the same god? Why do we need to be taught about religion, why aren't we born with the innate knowledge of this all powerful deity?