Why would any woman want to be Christian?

[jstrodel]

L.O.L. You wouldn't know what the definition of reason was if I smacked you in the face with a dictionary opened to the page "reason" is on with highlighter liberally applied all over it. It could literally be applied to your face at full force and it would not register. I tear your argument apart and you revert to hypothetical vagueries that apply to nothing at all and exist only in your own, very-empty head. No, do go on about the principles of reasoning! Why don't you tell me I just committed another fallacy! You could say...OH, I KNOW! You could say I made an appeals to authority! Or special pleading! You know, everything you've already committed that I haven't! I mean you already went with straw-man when none was there! Do go on! I'm actually laughing uproariously right now at how typical your reaction is to every other theist I've schooled so thoroughly; "quick! Pretend to know what I'm talking about by throwing big words around! That'll really throw them off!"

Except you don't. And I haven't been. You're about as transparent as saran wrap. Go back to high school. Do some learning. I make sandwiches for a living and I'm smarter than you, it seems. Think about that for...the rest of your life.

Not a single argument there. I enjoy philosophical debate, I don't care for other kinds of disputation. You can be smarter than me, I really am not interested, I am only interested in defending the Bible from people that misunderstand the roots of the values they understand to be universal. Actually, the values are the values of the culture they belong to.

Slavery, like capitalism, has many unsavory aspects to it. But, just as there is no simple transition from slavery to modern economic organization, there is no simple transition from capitalism to a future organization. Maybe in the future there will be a way to replace capitalism, which is like slavery in many ways. People do not have a human right today to have the future benefits of a post-capitalist order just as people in the past do not have a human right to enjoy the benefits of capitalism. Obviously the economic order affects the values to some degree, what is moral is what is possible, people cannot have a human right to what cannot exist. There is no human right to venture capital investors. These things belong to certain cultures.

I am proud of my country for abolishing slavery, but I do not deify my countries laws, and I do not have an ugly nationalistic pride that makes me believe that my countries laws represent universal ethical norms. This is very arrogant and narrow minded. Ethics is a complicated thing.