Is God a tyrannical dictator of morality?

[WWWTT]

You can't eliminate god any more than you can eliminate human emotion. The commies already tried it, and it got them nowhere.

I guess you never heard about The Peoples Republic of China before?

Its just a vague hardly spoken about country in Asia with a meager population of about fourteen thousand million people.

There are many religions there and I believe budism is the major one there.

I have bein to several temples there and they have various different gods for different things/occasions but many people there don't care much for religion.

Coincidentaly the Chinese people are very superstitious.

WWWTT

[Guest Manny]

I guess you never heard about The Peoples Republic of China before?

Its just a vague hardly spoken about country in Asia with a meager population of about fourteen thousand million people.

There are many religions there and I believe budism is the major one there.

I have bein to several temples there and they have various different gods for different things/occasions but many people there don't care much for religion.

Coincidentaly the Chinese people are very superstitious.

WWWTT

Point is, those who tried to eliminate religion never succeeded.

[Guest Manny]

I'm not saying that god has been eliminated.

I am saying is that god is no longer (as Moonlight put it) a "tyrannical dictator of morality". The morality that our religions endorse has become (as Moonlight put it) a "democratic regime of morality". The morality endorsed by religions in our society has changed in accordance with the views of our society.

Ok, I get you now. But all that means is, someone or something else takes up the role of tyrannical dictator of morality. It's a part of how we function. It never really was "God".

[WWWTT]

Point is, those who tried to eliminate religion never succeeded.

Yes it would be impossible to completely control/dictate what someone thinks/believes.

But in China religion is not promoted.And(according to my wife) the government discourages relighion.I believe it is tolerated and allowed,there are budhist temples there and very old Catholic churches(I visited the oldest Catholic church in China on an island in the south China sea near Behai)These churches are maintained and repaired for historic reasons but I am not even sure if they even have catholic priests holding mass.

I attended mass at a catholic church in Macao(in Portuguese too) but I am not sure how the Catholic church or other sects of Christianity operates on the rest of mainland China(I asume the church operates freely in Hong Kong as in Macao).

I know there is a region in Bejing that is muslim and there are mosques there.

But my wife and her family does not care for religion.

I would like to point out aswell too that the degree that people take their religion in China is much less fanatic!That is the ones that still practise Budism.

WWWTT

[eyeball]

I disagree. We have lots of different forces trying to shape public opinion (and the church remains one of them) but ultimately there's no single source leading it.

-k

What about the almighty dollar?