And I said yes it is possible to create a morality, but the real question is why should I follow your morality, why is your morality the right morality if there is no higher responsibility?
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The law isn't a higher responsibility?
Morality is derived from society; if you're so far removed from it that your only view of right and wrong is based on a collection of stories from thousands of years ago, then you got a problem.
There IS a higher responsibility. Both the law and society will ostracize you if you can't or won't follow common ethic and morality rules.
Morality rules are subject to evolution, in that they change with the changing times. Some rules are more rock-steady than others though. Killing your fellow humans and tampering with the food supply are high up on the scale.
Not that long ago, it was ok to whip a slave to death, as long as it was your slave. The Bible is not adverse to this.
Not that long ago girls didn't have the ownership of their own bodies. The Bible is not adverse to that thought.
Not that long ago a woman could be stoned to death for being raped. The Bible is not adverse to this.
Why should I follow the Bible, again?
Okay, let's make a deal. I will not harm you if you will not harm me. That way we can live in close proximity, and possibly even work together for mutual benefit. Do we have a deal? Hooray, we've just created morality, no appeals to supernatural entities required.
Now let's expand that a little. Let's agree not to enslave each others' children and force them to accept each others' views of alleged supernatural entities and realms. Oh wait a minute...your supernatural entity requires you to do that in order to spread the news about how loving it is? Okay, now we have a problem.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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