RE: Does the positive side of tribalism/racism outshine the negative side?
August 12, 2020 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2020 at 10:04 am by Greatest I am.)
(August 11, 2020 at 6:44 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In this regard there doesn't seem to be a difference between today and ancient history. We routinely decide that an instrumental good outweighs a moral evil. I'm wondering aloud about precisely that with Tack in two threads. There's nothing particularly new or radical about it - but it's not an artifact relegated to museums, either. It's only a question of how much we want the real or perceived deliverable, and what arguments or rationalizations we'll find compelling or serviceable to that end.
If I understand you correctly, you're insisting that we shouldn't do that, or should approach it with more caution than we do, at the least. I think there's definitely an argument to be made there, and we won;t be hard pressed to find cautionary examples.
No argument on your last but slavery today is definitely not what it was in ancient days.
Many city states had more slaves than free and if the owners were not generous enough, they would not have survived. Slavery was welfare or dole and social safety net back then. It is not so today from what I can see of it.
Regards
DL
(August 12, 2020 at 8:31 am)tackattack Wrote: Hardening of the heart doesn't annihilate the possibility of salvation. Hardening of the heart produces the opportunity to be broken. The breaking of stubbornness for example.
Pharaoh had a soft heart that was going to let Moses and the Jews leave.
Yahweh hardened his heart, changing Pharaoh's good intention to evil.
All to show his power says scriptures.
Do you see that as Yahweh doing good, or was it evil?
Regards
DL
