"Cliff" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:20:53 GMT, Strabo
wrote:

In OT - A test for Gunner & Stu & crew on Wed, 31 Aug 2005
00:39:25 -0400, by Cliff, we read:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:45:22 GMT, Strabo
wrote:

I am a moral man without religion.

Perhaps. Morality does not require religion but
principles and consistent morality does require a
nature that seems to elude you.

"Morality" is from religion.

True but there is a primary source.

Religion is a formalized system of behavior, expectations
and values. This system expresses a moral code.

But morality may also derive from one's culture. Culture
is the keeper of the necessary principles, customs and
traditions for success within the society.

A religion is not concocted in a vacuum. It
will reflect the originator's cultural values.
A religion is only successful when it is accepted
by the society at large.

So, the moral code of a religion and that of the
culture in which it is practiced, are typically
the same.

So is it "moral" to eat gramps?

Yes, but not with milk.

The tastiest part?

Gramps' nuts cereal.
(groan if you must)

--
Jeff
It is preferential to refrain from the utilization of sesquipedalian
verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualization can be verbalized
using compararatively simplistic lexicographical entitities.