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Essay:Why all Religious Morality Sucks
Basically any religion has an absolute morality. Good and bad are as defined by the godhead and as interpreted by his/her representatives on earth, the priesthood. Most (all?) religions have, at their heart, the premise that good behaviour leads to rewards in the afterlife. As such anyone who does not follow the rules as laid down by the priesthood are, by definition, destined for bad things in the afterlife and god would only do that to bad people. Hence, logically, it follows that anyone who doesn't follow a particular religion's set of rules is, by their definition, bad. That really sucks.