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Originally Posted by DreamRunner
What you are saying is far too general and incredibly wrong. You do realize when you are talking about 'all faiths', that religion and morals vary between a cultural societies? For instance, western society is based on a judo-christian morally based system - it has just evolved over time with many individuals changing it into what it is today. Our own understanding and thought is from a western social understanding of ethics and morals which are governed by a very Judo-Christian set based concepts, of either compassion, goodness and evil. But it is wrong to group all religions, as if they all share the same moral code of conduct.
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What I said about all faiths is that, essentially, there are people in every faith that are xenophobic, ethnocentric and ignorant to the point that they believe their own system is good and all or most other systems are not. Those people should pull their heads out of their asses.
While its true that much of modern moral standard (not just in the West mind you) has roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition, it would be really wrong to say that only people of Christian faith follow those standards. To be fair, the Judeo-Christian tradition evolved from earlier belief systems, and so it isn't quite fair to even give them credit (much of the old Testament, for example is a retelling of earlier moral stories from a host of other cultures and religions, and much of the new testament was heavily influenced by Greek, Roman and Egyptian traditions, as well as other Middle-Eastern and Eastern philosophies). The world has become such an interconnected place that few real differences in Morality still exist between the major religions, or of people who claim no religious preference. This is not because Christianity won out against the others, far from it. Its really because certain beliefs are common to most or all societies in the world naturally speaking (Read John Locke, David Hume, Confucius, Lao Tze, Thucydides, Jean Jacques Rousseau and virtually every major thinker from virtually every religious faith). Long before there was any form of organized religion, there were accepted standards of behavior which are not entirely different from our current standards. Religion became a tool by which those standards were taught and questions, largely because humanity at large did not posses the educational faculties which the modern world enjoys. Even though most religions are still a good tool for teaching these standards of behavior, they are no longer essential to doing so.
