[ExI] atheists declare religions as scams.

[The Avantguardian]

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> From: The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>
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> This is the unavoidable result of moralities being axiomatic systems. Starting 

> from moral axioms such as "thou shall not murder" and "thou shall honor thy 
> father", it is quite easy to come up with morally undecidable situations such 
> as "should thou honor thy father if he is a murderer?" *This is Gödel's 
> incompleteness in action.* 

Actually, for purposes of accuracy, I will retract this statement as I doubt any 
moral system has sufficient arithmetic for Godel's theorem to be applicable. But 
it probably would become applicable were one to start talking about programming 
a robot or computer to be a "moral agent". For other purposes, it will suffice 
to say, *This is logical inconsistency in action* and leave it at that. 

Stuart LaForge 



"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, 
and energy of her citizens cannot cure."- Dwight D. Eisenhower