(July 28, 2020 at 11:03 am)Greatest I am Wrote:It's full of examples that you apply an external moral standard to, as demonstrated in your remarks, not lessons - or at least not any lesson you appear inclined to accept.
(July 27, 2020 at 9:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If you're looking for moral lessons and exemplars in magic book, you've utterly missed the point of magic book.
It tells you how to get into the themepark in the sky, not how to be a good person.
I disagree.
The bible is full of moral lessons.
For instance, the morality of Yahweh's actions teach us much.
Unfortunately, Christians call evil good.
Quote:Gnostic Christians learned that Yahweh is an evil prick.Wrong person to ask. Magic book had no place whatsoever in my moral education. I can only point out that if this is what you took from magic book it must be referring to some standard outside of magic book. That's not uncommon, it was a preexisting belief about gods in general in the relevant time frame. No one learned it from reading magic book.
Did you not learn the same moral lesson?
Regards
DL
TLDR, no, I didn't learn that from magic book, neither did the gnostics, and neither did you.
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