"Popeye" wrote in message
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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?


Popeye Serpiginuous choroiditis

Gilligan.

Max