[ExI] , Morality experts

[Darin Sunley]

>Genuine ethical concerns about new technology are routinely conflated with
superstitious beliefs and prejudices. This is leading to babies being
thrown out with bathwater.

Nice turn of the phrase.

"Babies being thrown out with bathwater" is exactly the thing the bishops
are complaining about.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:39 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 2:36 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
> Therein lies a big problem because abortion isn’t literally mentioned as a
> sin or as bad in the Bible.
>
> 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
>
>
> To be sure, with any religious group, doctrinal determinism — the idea
> that members will adhere rigidly and religiously (pun intended) to the
> doctrines of their religion doesn’t hold. In fact, this even applies when
> they know and can recite clearly said doctrines. This doesn’t just apply to
> stuff like abortion, contraception, and sex, but to more mundane things
> like believing in luck.
>
> D. J. Slone goes over this in his _ Theological Incorrectness: Why
> Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't_. It’s pervasive and not
> limited to Christians. He even uses Buddhists in his examples. My guess is
> it’s typical of all times to hold a religious (or other) doctrine and not
> practice it, especially when the doctrine is costly to practice but even if
> it’s just inconvenient.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
> http://author.to/DanUst
>
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