Religion stifles Moral Evolution

[Angrboda]

Are you suggesting that the new testament says that we are to abandon law altogether?  That seems a bit steep.

'Abandon' isn't the right word. The moral laws of the OT were summarized/encapsulated in the NT message/instructions and following them would ensure (and in some cases exceed) satisfying the OT prescriptions. The other civil and dietary laws were for another people in another context.

Well, let me put it to you in the form of a hypothetical. Let's suppose that all persons all over the world converted to Christianity. In that circumstance are we to ignore the strictures of the old testament? If so, are we to abandon the institution of law altogether? If not, what are we supposed to use as the basis of our formulations about law? Jesus said that loving thy God with your all, and loving thy neighbor as one loves themselves and that "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” It seems rather strange that Jesus is here justifying the law if he is supposed to have abolished it. Regardless, are we to simply punt on issues such as abortion, or are we to in some sense attempt to divine the appropriate legal guide from these two commandments, ignoring altogether what the old testament says? In short, would the new testament replace law in this brave new world? From where would our laws come?