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Zac_A
How do you determine whats morally right or wrong then?
Without God’s word…
For exampl,this
foxnews.com/media/popular-c … mutilation
I m never buying costa again after seeing this.
How? Relatively easily, I start by rejecting that which is morally abhorrent to me, which includes any belief system which teaches and practices:
- subjugation of 50% of the world population (women)
- rejection of those who find love in “unapproved” ways (homosexuals)
- dogmatic eradication (by any means necessary) of anyone who has dared to disagree with their own particular viewpoint, including those who follow their own belief system but who choose to do it in a slightly different way (catholics vs protestants etc etc)
- protection of child ■■■■■■ abusers, sanctioned at the highest level of their organisation
- control over the masses by means of hysteria against an imagined (but non-existent) enemy (witches) and which incites fear and loathing amongst these masses to the point where adult women, and girls as young as nine years old, are subject to torture and execution
- Suppression of scientific knowledge in favour of a retarded philosophy designed to keep it’s followers from becoming aware of the verifible knowledge which would allow them to see they are being lied to and manipulated.
See, it’s not that difficult when you look at things rationally. Despite what you believe, Christianity does not have some kind of monopoly on morality - if anything, it is one of the more suspect belief systems on our planet (see points 1 to 5 above).
As I keep on telling you, your God is fictitious, your favourite book is merely the very warped ramblings of a group of ancient men (and one sole, token woman, Esther). It is not “Gods word”. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings gives far better moral guidance than the Christian Bible in my opinion
I’m conversant with a range of different moral, philosophical and religious beliefs, so I have a vastly more varied appreciation of what might (if there was one sole answer, which there is not) constitute “morality”, than can be had from a fundamentalist Christian sect. Because I’m educated I can make my own mind up about “right” and “wrong” according to my own inner “moral compass”.
What might I use to those ends? As well as 60-plus years of very varied life experience, I’m currently reading Marcus Aurelius Meditations, earlier this year I re-read one of my philosophical favourites, Albert Camus’s The Outsider, and later this year I’m going to buy myself a nice fancy hardback version of Machiavelli’s The Prince to replace my old dog-eared copy.
All three books are entirely free of: ritual child sacrifice, indoctrined subjugation of the female, threats of damnation, fire, brimstone, and the “fear” necessary to make would-be advocates pliable to the will of some self-appointed leader. I would venture all three are able to promote a more healthy and realistic engagement with the modern world than your disturbing Big Book of Fairy Tales.
As for your link, I wouldn’t normally soil my browser with Fox “news”, it makes The Sun and The Daily Sport look like literature. I am already 100% opposed to Costa Coffee, Starbucks, McDonalds, Apple, Meta etc etc, but I did take a moment to view their ill-conceived and cynically “woke washing” ad campaign, so if you’re boycotting Costa too on the basis of that, I’d give you a big thumbs up bravo.
Budweiser have been up to similar shenanigans and are paying the (literal) price for their “wokeness” with a devalued share price:
independent.ie/business/med … 25752.html
…off some f/wit on here once. 
