I think the impulse to send bibles is not entirely negative. People need dreams as well as food. Maybe they need dreams more when they don't have enough to eat. That said, meals and medical care first!
The question of where ethics come from is in fact a very significant and difficult one and not, I think, so easily answered by the claim of evolutionary sources. (Is there any human attribute for which this claim is not made?) Yet Christian philosophers seem to know no more than anyone else, despite all claims to the contrary, and most of their arguments seem to come from the pagan philosopher Plato, anyway.
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Date: 2010-01-24 05:14 am (UTC)I think the impulse to send bibles is not entirely negative. People need dreams as well as food. Maybe they need dreams more when they don't have enough to eat. That said, meals and medical care first!
The question of where ethics come from is in fact a very significant and difficult one and not, I think, so easily answered by the claim of evolutionary sources. (Is there any human attribute for which this claim is not made?) Yet Christian philosophers seem to know no more than anyone else, despite all claims to the contrary, and most of their arguments seem to come from the pagan philosopher Plato, anyway.