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Originally posted by livi
Jeff,
Some of the statements in your original post are definitely sad facts about our race´s degenerate behavior. However, putting it in a context where the lack of God and religion equals lack of ethics and moral is elitist and quite frankly rather narrow minded. As a whole, the text has a point - but God and religion have nothing to do with it.
Ethics, moral and behavior are inherent traits of the human race - with or without God.
Where did you find that text?
Disclaimer: I may of course have misunderstood the whole meaning of the text. In that case - well, just ignore me. 
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Actually livi, you are the only one who
understood the whole text. The "God" part of it merely served as a distraction to those always ready to jump down His throat. It's amazing how distracting He can be.
The moral decay of our society has nothing to do with God or the lack of a God. This thread serves to demonstrate how far we have progressed down the path where any mention of morality from a "religious" point of view is immediately attacked on "religious" grounds. The actual morals and ethics under discussion get lost. Too many folks will steer the discusion to keeping "God"out of it and completely ignore the moral and ethical questions at hand. They will actually fight against any moral or ethical stance that they perceive as being based upon "religion". Such is their distaste. They would sooner accept, or gloss over moral decay than concede to any point of view seen as "religious".