(February 19, 2017 at 10:07 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 19, 2017 at 2:09 am)Astreja Wrote: That's because over many generations we've created a superior moral standard to the one in the Bible -- a standard that has improved the quality of life for a greater number of people, resulting in a more productive, more advanced culture.
Progress is a myth. Quality of Life? Not for the offspring and elderly that are killed to maintain lives of pleasure and comfort? Productive? Masses who live in tyranny make cheap goods in smog covered cities so others can live on the dole watching reality television. Advanced? Who is to say that future generations will not look back in horror on our lack of honor and shamelessness? Will they judge us for our willingness to to look away from the hidden violence and even celebrate private depravities.
I don't know how future generations will look at us ,but apparently God seems to think it's a good and orderly thing for a raped woman to be sold to her rapist. Or in the NT that lieing about how much money is donated is deserving of execution. Or that women should not have any occupation in which they would be teaching males anything and should submit to their husbands. Not to mention the homophobia which you possibly approve of.
How about things which you can relate to historic horrors? Like how it says not to suffer a witch to live and we have the Salem witch trials? Or how about the sanctioning of slavery which Jesus and Paul did not recant? The Confederate South accurately used those scriptures to justify their slavery.
So, things are far from perfect but we have definitely made progress compared to a book made in a foreign country during barbaric times.
