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Originally Posted by Superman
I cannot agree with any of the poll choices. The first one is closest, but is backwards. It should be:
"I recognize the higher purpose, and that leads me to the Diety."
You see, theist or atheist, very few people deny there is much more than what we see. One thing we have difficulty (impossible, I think) explaining away is this feeling we should do "right" and avoid "wrong." That leads to the question of where our shared sense of "right" and "wrong" comes from. And from there it is a short trip to the recognition of a Diety.
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No diety is required to have "right" or "wrong" in a society. All animal societies have acceptable and unacceptable behavior. We are no different. For every culture the rules are established. This has been true since we were still wild primates, long before any civilization. And for just about every "wrong" type of behavior you can come up with, history can provide a culture who embraced your "wrong" as a "right" and thrived at least as long as our own culture.
This "difficulty (impossible, I think) explaining" of this feeling has been totally explained and documented in Anthropology for years. It is not a mystery.