Nature's Laws

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The bible endorses slavery, it gives you instructions on where you're allowed to buy slaves from, how much you can beat them etc. It never once says it is wrong. And the bible is not shy about saying what it thinks is wrong.

Any civilised person would hopefully agree slavery is immoral. Therefor, the bible supports either immorality, or a bygone morality system of no relevance today. The only way to find out which bits are moral and which aren't, is to apply our own morality. Blindly accepting it would lead us to continue with slavery, so I think that's a very bad idea.

The result? People justify what they think is moral by finding bits of the bible they think sound similar. They find excuses for why the bible doesn't really mean what it seems to mean in all cases where they disagree. In other words, they are entirely ignoring the bible and using their own morality. They are saying they know better than God, and they are right, in most cases. But sometimes, a good person may do a bad thing because religion endorses it, that they wouldn't otherwise do.