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Thread #132816   Message #3007325
Posted By: Steve Shaw
14-Oct-10 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
As ever, the problem is what you mean by moral. Both Blair and Dubya thought they were being moral and both invoked God. A million and a quarter innocent Iraqi civilians and a good number of widows and orphans might have demurred, had they had the chance. The pope thinks he's moral in condemning thousands of poor African women to die from AIDS. Pius X11 thought he was being moral in sending a thousand Vatican Jews into the hands of the Nazis and expediting the escape of Nazi war criminals to south America in 1945. The Israelis think they're being moral in imprisoning a million and a half Gazans in deprivation and poverty. Moral isn't a very good word any more. Better to just argue about what's right and what's wrong.