Hi Andrew
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Originally Posted by Ersby  People will adapt their belief systems to excuse any "bad" behaviour as they see fit, in my experience. |
Unfortunately I think so too. Perhaps this can be seen clearly in the enduring popularity of the pagan belief that bad present behavior can be wiped away in future by the past torturing of an innocent saviour God.
It is that sort of belief that put me of organized religion for life. However we shouldn't throw out the survival hypothesis with the religious bathwater. If mind doesn't quite fit into brain, we have to consider it.
Andrew, if I recall you once believed in *some* paranormal phenomena, why did you once believe? What changed your mind? Would you say your ethics have improved since becoming a skeptic? No change I reckon .... but what if you had been raised from childhood to think your were 'just a pack of neurons'? Personally if I had been raised like that, I fear I might have robbed the Bank of England by now
..... Well probably not.