[ExI] , Morality experts

[William Flynn Wallace]

Them:  God said it in the Bible so it must be true according to the experts
on the Bible.
What do you have for credibility?  What's your morality based on? What
makes it right?

Many Catholics are ignoring the church's doctrines, esp. about birth
control, divorce and other things.  So some of them are appealing to
reason, not to the church.  The church is weakening, partly because of all
the exposes about child molestation.  Check out church attendance in
Ireland, for example.  bill w

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:04 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 23/06/2020 20:45, John K Clark wrote:
>
> The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is complaining about several
> promising COVID-19 vaccines because they were manufactured with the help of
> cells from a fetus that was aborted way back in 1972. It's too bad these
> experts on morality didn't express the same moral outrage when they heard
> about sexual abuse of young boys by their priests.
>
> Vaccines that use human fetal cells draw fire
> <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1170?rss=1>
>
>
> The biggest problem with this, as I see it, is not the immediate issue of
> condemning a promising vaccine (which is bad enough), but the much more
> serious and longer-term one of stigmatising an entire field that should be
> taken seriously, but because of these religious idiots, is more likely to
> be either derided and ignored, or cause confusion for the majority of
> people.
>
> Genuine ethical concerns about new technology are routinely conflated with
> superstitious beliefs and prejudices. This is leading to babies being
> thrown out with bathwater. I've even caught myself thinking "ethics,
> schmethics", but then realised that there actually are genuine ethical
> concerns that need to be addressed. Just not by religiously-motivated
> 'bioethicists'.
>
> What we need is a way to claim back morality and ethics from religion, and
> turn them from obeisance to an imaginary tyrant to concern for people's
> well-being.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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