"Joe" wrote
There arises in all of us, of any culture, universal feelings of right and
wrong.

Wrong! There is no *universal* feeling of right and wrong. You believe there
is because you are ignorant of other cultures but the very notion that there
is "right" and "wrong" is the poison of Eve's Apple. Is it OK for me to
murder you and your family? It is if I'm a radical Muslim and you're a
heretic who believes in democracy and thinks men should make laws instead of
obeying the god-given sharia (sp?). The Taliban executed women for learning
to read, believing they followed YHWH's orders. It's also OK if you're a bit
odd. After all the "good" people of Salem who executed people for witchcraft
were fighting evil and, like serial killers and child molesters, show no
remorse. Are Michael Jackson's relations with young boys good or bad? Nazis
thought they were doing "the right thing" and, as we speak, Israel is doing
the same "right thing" to the indigineous Palistinians.

Where did we get this sense of wrongness Blobster?

From parents and peers whilst growing up from infanthood, Joe. That's why no
sense of wrongness agrees. Sheeple are all worked up over "torture" in
Iraqui prisons because they grew up wimpy; but I have yet to see anything
worse than a frat initiation cuz my peers thot it great sport to pour gas
down somebody's crack and light it off. OTOH I'm appalled by GW's ban on
medical research - 1000s doomed to die of diabetes and heart disease, or to
live out their lives as parapheligics just because some idiots sense of
wrongness says stem cell research is evil.

...... Our conscience can best be explained by a loving
Creator who cares about the decisions and harmony of humanity.

You're joking! Christians, Jews and Muslims all worship the same god, the
joker who conned Abraham into mutilating his penis, yet they murder each
other daily. If we pulled out of Iraq today the Shia majority would butcher
the Sunni minority for it's sins, just like Christians and Muslims did when
the "godless communists" pulled out of Yugoslavia! Same with Catholics and
Protestants in Ireland. So much for your god-given sense of right and wrong.
There is a documentary movie named "Marjo" that you really should see.