How Do We Behave?

[fr0d0]

Hmmmm....do you think you would have "condoned" slavery if YOU were one of the slaves?

I'd have no choice. I would know the consequences of poverty etc etc, just like we're victims of our situations now. I would guess that no one below the level of King would lack ambition.

Then how do you explain the ten commandments? The bible is always preaching morality from rules and tells you not to make your own choice about certain acts. Why so clear on things like murder, lying, stealing, and even worshiping false idols, but so ambiguous on slavery?

Seems you could lump all those things together as clearly unhealthy. Slavery and it's parallels in modern society are in the secular realm and subjective. Is the imposed loss of liberty wrong? If we're treating prisoners fairly (not all western prisons have done so recently) is that following the biblical model inspired by God?

I think we're back where we were a few pages ago, where I said that Christians and Atheists both do exactly the same thing: trying to use their own minds to figure out what is good and what is bad?

We all have to. If your morality is informed purely by secular influences then there will be a conflict at some point with an aspirational morality.