Thread: influence on religion (past and present) on today's non-religious society
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Unread 2 Feb 2007, 14:42   #41
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Re: influence on religion (past and present) on today's non-religious society
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Don't be stupid. Language and science aim to describe reality. Their success can be measured through the miracles of empiricism. Morality has to be a construct otherwise it's meaningless. Much like if there really was a point to beauty it wouldn't be beauty at all.
Rubbish. The idea that empiricism is a desirable thing is one of the great prevailing human constructs of our time, much as is the idea that beauty should have no point.
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