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Date/Time 24 Jan 2017 1:18:57pm
There are no “ifs” or “givens” with mutual peace. We know it exists and we know its character.

Whats the point of morality? What are we trying to achieve with it. What type of life are we after? What is the end result of behaving morally? A peaceful uncoerced life, that's what we are trying to achieve from the rules of social living.

Our cave dwelling ancestors would've worked this out a couple of hundred thousand years ago. But it’s taken a couple of hundred thousand years to evolve a society and political system where moral behaviour can be practised widely across a large population.

Objective moral values and facts can be measured by mutual peace.
Objective moral values and facts and mutual peace exist.
The god mind is redundant in determining objective moral values and facts.

Instead of asking "What would Jesus do?" when confronted with a moral dilemma, ask "Am I breaching mutual peace?" You will no longer have to second or third guess a two thousand year old character in a book, you can examine the situation immediately and reach a reasoned decision. Whether you enact that decision is up to you and how you wish to participate in your society. We are responsible for our actions and others have to deal with our actions.

The age of the tribe is past its use by date. We are now in the age of the planet. And in order for our species and other species which are affected by us, to survive, we have act as a planet wide society.

The ordering principle called the mind of god has not, does not and cannot produce a mutually peaceful, democratic, prosperous inclusive society of the planet that is socially and economically and environmentally and industrially progressive and enables people to make meaning in their life.

The ordering principle that is doing that (though its still got a way to go yet) is secular humanist liberal social democracy and the scientific method.

Peace be with you
Go in peace
Peace on earth and goodwill to all
Give peace a chance