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Yorktown

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10. Agreed. Another proof religions are sandcastles.

Reply to Lordquinton (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:56 PM

Jun 2015

One of the precious few tangible religions claim to bring is moral codes.

If, as you write, there is no moral yardstick defined as of today, it proves another failure of religions.

And I would agree it's fuzzy. Morality is just a lot of distribution curves.

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