Why Secular Morality is Superior

[John V]

And you can experience the feeling of pain without self-awareness how?

Touch something that’s harmful to the body, feel pain.

You should be telling me how or why not, rather than asking. Remember, your claim is that secular morality focuses like a laser on what’s really important. The scope of beings covered by morality is really important, yet all you’ve managed so far is to rule out rocks and amoebas. Unlike you I don’t rush claims to victory. I give my opponent time. But, your time is running out.

[quote]Deut 21:10-14 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Thanks for giving the answer for me. Props to you, as most critics aren’t aware of this passage. This practice seems strange to modern Westerners, but arranged marriage has been common through time and across cultures.