Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
I hesitate a moment before engaging you again, but I trust this will be relevant to the thread, and the issue of atheists having no basis for a moral compass.

Diablo*, you are a Christian and take the Bible as your moral guide, I believe?

Even if I accept some of your premises (for the sake of argument) such as the age of the earth and humanity (just over 4000 years of history, as I understand your position) throughout most of that time, the bulk of humanity had no access to the lessons of the Bible.

Yet there is good historical evidence that they developed moral codes. In your terms, they knew what a straight line looked like. How so?

If you argue that your god somehow gave them this information before they saw the bible, then you are accepting that there are divinely inspired texts and influences beyond that tome. If the bible is the only source of moral inspiration, how did these cultures develop moral codes before they were evangelised? If it is possible to develop a moral code from a belief system other than that of the Christian bible, why is the atheist belief system uniquely unable to do it?

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*I note the humour about your religion in your recent signature, so perhaps you do see the delicious joy in being able to address you in these debates by your abbreviated user-name.
If you'll pardon my asking, but I didn't understand one bit of this post, escpecially regarding my username and signature.