• Z3k3@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I think the issue here is horse before cart

    Humans as a species have a need to explain the world around us. Unfortunately the thought process before the codified use of science was “i don’t know there for god”

    This means the spiritual system was in place was in place before morality.

    This spiritually was bent around what was acceptable at the time. Slavery capital punishment polygamy etc. All of which are more or less moral based on nothing more than where you live

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        19 hours ago

        Not really your arguing unless I’m misunderstanding you your basically arguing coronation = causation

        We are now in a time where spirituality is not built in (terms and conditions apply) but morality still exist.

        Hell I’d argue in this day and age societal spirituality is harmful to morality

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          19 hours ago

          We are in a time now where morality does not require spirituality or religion. My point is that it was required to get our species to the point we are at now by unifying a “moral code”, and all evidence we have supports that idea.

          I am not arguing for religion or spirituality in the modern age, I am saying it served a purpose.

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            19 hours ago

            Again causality vs coronation

            There is nothing to say if by some quirk of faight (yeh i know what I’m saying but roll with it) something akin to the scientific method was the norm in place of i dunno there for God. We would still come up with societal norms or morality.

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              18 hours ago

              If that were true, why has no documented civilization or precivilization existed without an element of spirituality or religion in their history?

              The point is Spirituality came first, and based on evidence, was needed for humans to form groups larger than a small family unit as a way to unify “morals”.

              “What if we had science instead” is a moot point because we have Science now and proved early humans wrong.

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                18 hours ago

                First of your twisting my words i never said it were true

                Humans are dumb as fuck. They see patterns where there is none and make up reasons just to make the world make sense. Like I keep repeating your arguing coronation equestrian causation this is simply not true.

                While you seemed on the level you tipped your hand I guess were done here

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                  18 hours ago

                  I sincerely do not believe you understand English well enough to understand what I am saying, and I do not have the ability to explain it any better than I already have.

                  If you are hung up on the whole “God” thing, know it isn’t about that.

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                    18 hours ago

                    Morality is nothing more than a social construct. For a society to exist there needs to be common rules

                    Spirituality haz nothing to do with that

                    Is that clear enough for you