RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 6:22 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 6:40 am by Nope.)
Quote:I like how you guys always try to compare ancient civilizations with your modern world view.
That was from Huggy 74. For some weird reason, my post won't show both my response and the part of his reply that I wanted to use so I just copied and pasted.
Huggy, you and I are in agreement. . Morality changed from the ancient period to now. Human beings did not feel less pain or fear than they do now. The difference is that we as a society have decided that killing infants just because we don't like their parents' religion is wrong. That is my point. On this issue you disagree with Catholic_Lady not me.
Catholic_Lady, thank you for being polite in this discussion. Most people here enjoy a good debate which can be a little disorienting to someone not used to it. I do have another question for you and I hope that you haven't given up on this thread yet.
Is the entire Old Testament an allegory? If so, what is the point? What lesson do we learn from verses like these:
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Quote:"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
Those young captives probably saw their entire families murdered. They were no less human than you or I. What exactly is the lesson that we are supposed to learn from this?
