When do you plan to Convert to Christanity?

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Secular morals are what common law is.

No siree. Common law upholds Christian morals such as forgiveness. Secular morals still have Christian influence. I heard recently forgiveness and Christs example used as a defense against the animal populist pressure for an eye for an eye type justice.

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The thing about interpretation is that you can make something mean whatever you would like it to mean, there is a great deal of flexibility there.

That wouldn't be honest interpretation. I'm not interested in just one side of the coin.

It doesn't really get off to a good start and the New Testament doesn't do much to improve on it.

You are interpreting it against current secular morality, which is very far removed from the secular morailty then. Gods understood input into that situation is to encourage a fairer treatment of slaves than was current. If we have a Christian influence then where we ended up is a product of that.

Secular moral standards dictate to those who don't care to think about their own

To some extent the morals we have are the product of the culture we live in. I would like to think I wouldn't be a fullblown anti-semitic Nazi if I lived in 1930s Germany but then a 1930s German is not different to myself in any fundamental way at all so there's no good reason why I wouldn't have been.

I think you're making my point for me here. Secular influence in that period was towards naziism. How would you considering a just and loving God jarr with that? Would your moral stance be different? Perhaps it would influence you a little. Perhaps a lot.