Yes it is the point. It was this unfounded claim on your part that
sparked off this debate in the first place. I know it's been a
long discussion, but let's not lose track of what it's really about.
>It was an answer to the assertion you made, viz.,
>
><<It's obvious that claiming a transcendent, "objective" standard
>doesn't make people behave any better.>>
>
>Now you are saying that Christianity CAN help people.
OK, you're right; I wasn't totally clear. I didn't mean to imply
that Christianity can't help people. I know that it can and does.
What I meant is that, overall, the Christian moral system has not
proven any more successful than, for example, the humanist moral
system.
Sorry for the confusion.
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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.