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Religions disagree sharply about some matters.
For instance, the Catholic Church shuns birth control (except the natural kind, the rhythm method). Protestants generally permit it. Similar disagreements exist on the death penalty (although the differences seem to be based more on politics than religion). Judaism is much more tolerant of abortion than Christianity (in general).
What informs our values, affects our values. For example, a God who is mainly vengeful would seem more likely to endorse the death penalty than a God who is mainly merciful. Which idea of God you believe in, affects your own opinion (if you are consistent).
I do agree that people of different faiths can and do agree on most moral issues, though. It's on the others -- the controversial ones that get the most attention and thus make different people's moral opinions seem more diverse than they probably are -- that will direct attention to the source of our morals.
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on May 10, 2006 at 6:52 PM
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somebody is ogng to tell you that it does
and why
but that comes from misreading the literature that they will inevitably present.
or misconstruing what "Salvation" truly is
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 10, 2006 at 11:13 AM
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