Maxprop wrote:


You can cite exceptions to virtually any rule all day long, Pop. There will
always be exceptions to a general rule, including the moral foundations
wrought by Christianity. Pedophilic priests, avaricious TV preachers, the
Salem witch trials, etc. But they represent a tiny fraction of the total
influence of "modern" Roman Catholicism and the protestant factions. They
do not refute the essential fundamental influence of western religions upon
morality. Aristotle was essentially a moral man adrift in a sea of
immorality. He, too, was an exception. There will always be exceptions,
and those whose arguments fall flat will always cite them as *evidence*
supporting their unfounded claims.

Max


So, is the Ten Commandments appearing in the Old Testament an exception
also?

The Old Testament must be an exception too.

So is it the New Testament that has brought the world into the light? Or
has Christianity brought the world into the light? What part or
mechanism or Christianity - the philosophy or the organization and
marketing of the beliefs?

Obviously it is not the teachings of the New Testament that has brought
the world into the light, for most of it basis is in the Old Testament
which is an exception.

The only thing left is the mass marketing of religion, whether forced or
voluntary as the mechanism that has brought the world into the light.

So there we have it, the Roman Catholic Church is responsible for
bringing morality to the world. Before the RC Church existed, morality
was not commonplace, the Ten Commandments were irrelevant, Judaism was
nothing, the Old Testament wasn't worth the paper it was written on,
the Code of Hammurabi was a hiccup, etc.

Code of Hammurabi:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html

You can go read the Code of Hammurabi, it is etched in stone literally
and is about 4,000 years old.

Yet another exception to the long line of exceptions.

The Roman Catholics adopted a good chunk of Roman Law didn't they?

Who was it that introduced the cannibalistic ritual?


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