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If I started shooting muslims and said I was acting on a humanistic moral base, would I be operating under humanism?
I believe that a standard conservative/religious right/capitalist/whatever argument is that the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China were operating according to socialism. That sort of argument
is rather common among apologists for the religious right.
You see Hangdawg13, people are claiming that societies based on Christian ethics are somehow more free and more humane than other ethics. Which is false. Anyone can claim to be Christian and then do the worst things under that banner -- a veneer of Christianity is no guarantee of anything.
But then you argue that if people act according to a very specific set of principles that
you make up, then we will have a perfect society. But so what? I can make up a very specific set of principles, call it Buddhism, socialism, humanism, or whatever, and insist that any society that adheres that will be perfectly just and humane. What good does that do? No society is going to adhere perfectly to any set of moral principles. No leadership is going to follow, to the letter, any set of moral principles.
The statement that "
true Christian principles would produce a perfect, just society" is either false from the start, or it is just silly.
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