From: John Beckett 

If it's not "voices in your head" that tells you what you believe
about God and morality, what is it?

My morality comes from chemicals/signals/software in my head. If you
believe in a certain religion, you formed your belief using exactly the
same apparatus that I used to form my morality.

John

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> If both were as you described than both would be equally irrational.  There
> is no more basis for following the voices in your head created by the
> interaction of various chemicals in your brain and nothing more than
> anything else.  Since atheists don't believe in god the only basis for those
> voices in your head would be electrical signals, software programming,
> chemical reactions in your brain, etc.  Allowing the mixing together of
> chemicals in your brain or the emission of electrical impulses to persuade
> you that something is or isn't intrinsically immoral is completely
> irrational.  Maybe we should just mix some chemicals together in a glass and
> hook it up to a 9 volt battery and devine therefrom what is moral.  Would
> certainly be just as valid as an atheist following the voices in his head.

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