While compiling today, I read an interesting question from a comment on Michael Shermers blog:
http://www.michaelshermer.com/2007/02/dinesh-shermer-debate3/#more-390
Comment:
Dinesh says Christianity gave us our values. I think people gave Christianity it’s values.
What a wonderful and provacative question. Could we humans have obtained our values but for Christ?
I love the idea that many of the values we have could have been obtained by humans, and claimed by Christianity.
Religion and Self-Deception
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I just finished The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception
in Human Life (Basic Books, 2011) by Robert Trivers, a Professor of
Anthropology...
2 months ago
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Agreed. This also helps to understand changing values of the mainstream members of the church over time. Evidence that social values are used to assign variable priority to so-called pillars of the faith, rather than vice versa.
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