My views on objective morality

[abaris]

When someone here keeps saying I should believe in something because it's written on some random sentence in the bible, after I have already explained that I am Catholic and Catholicism is not based on sola scriptura, I can only guess that they simply still don't understand. That's a more charitable assumption than to think they did understand but are just being obtuse on purpose.

When someone tries to nail you to a single sentence, you have a point. But there's a whole book out there, filled to the brim with horror stories, the ancients considered to be inspired by god and perfectly moral.

Yes, I get it. The modern catholic church doesn't require you to believe in talking snakes, dragons and Adam and Eve. Well, lucky you. When I grew up, we didn't have that liberty. They present the stories in the OT to be allegorical because they know, they don't make for good publicity. They also can't do away with the old book entirely, since without the OT, the NT doesn't make any sense.

We've deviated from the original point of this thread, which was objective morality. Which most of us don't think exists. Proof, as I said, right under your nose. The OT.

But you said, you never had any deeper thoughts on what is written in the OT. Is it usual for you, not to reflect on what you are reading? Or is it just with religious texts that you accept them without questioning the reasons for the text being there and written in a certain way?