{"id":7331,"date":"2019-06-05T17:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:39:21","slug":"links-and-comments-religious-morality-natural-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2019\/06\/05\/links-and-comments-religious-morality-natural-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Comments: Religious Morality; Natural Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of yesterday&#8217;s post is this &#8220;Jesus &#8216;n&#8217; Mo&#8221; comic, posted by Jerry Coyne, on exactly the subject of deciding what seems right to you first, and looking for scriptural authority to support it second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2019\/06\/05\/jesus-n-mo-n-religious-morality\/\">Jesus \u2018n\u2019 Mo \u2018n\u2019 religious morality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He embeds the actual comic in his strip; can I? Yes!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/06\/zilch-1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s news lately about the current administration appealing to &#8220;natural law&#8221; as a basis for human rights. The Center for Inquiry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforinquiry.org\/blog\/a-particularly-toxic-brand\/\">blog today<\/a> offers this comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem is the term \u201cnatural law.\u201d Although many Americans may not realize it, that\u2019s a loaded term \u2013 code language, really. It\u2019s often used by religious conservatives to undermine church-state separation and argue that public policy should be anchored in faith-based rationales. A better term for it is \u201cGod\u2019s law.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The problem with natural law is that while it\u2019s often dressed up in a lot of academic jargon, pseudo-philosophizing and claims to be a reason-based system, at the end of the day, its fundamental argument is this: \u201cI\u2019ve given this a lot of thought, and I\u2019m convinced that my religion is true, so let\u2019s base ours laws on it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of yesterday&#8217;s post is this &#8220;Jesus &#8216;n&#8217; Mo&#8221; comic, posted by Jerry Coyne, on exactly the subject of deciding what seems right to you first, and looking for scriptural authority to support it second. Jesus \u2018n\u2019 Mo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2019\/06\/05\/links-and-comments-religious-morality-natural-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}