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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
That's a good question, if anything it's the opposite, you can cherry pick how you personally see things and I would think that's not objective. AronRa points out some interesting linguistic fallacies that are associated with the 10 commandments for this reason. Though not exactly talking about subjective or objective morality, it's a very similar subject that leads to some problems with morality of religion as a whole.
[quote]Thou Shall not Steal
What if you're living in Egypt preparing for the Exodus and God tells you to borrow things you know you're not going to return because you're on a one way trip out of the country. Or worse, thou shall not steal unless you first plunder the village and the inhabitants, killing every man, woman and children except for the little girls. These virgins are the booty you get to keep for yourselves along with the livestock and everything else you stole from the neighbors.
Because if they're all dead, it's not really stealing?
Remember this is what God commanded his chosen people to do, even after he gave them these commandments.[/quote]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36g3auOm9HA]
[quote]Thou Shall not Steal
What if you're living in Egypt preparing for the Exodus and God tells you to borrow things you know you're not going to return because you're on a one way trip out of the country. Or worse, thou shall not steal unless you first plunder the village and the inhabitants, killing every man, woman and children except for the little girls. These virgins are the booty you get to keep for yourselves along with the livestock and everything else you stole from the neighbors.
Because if they're all dead, it's not really stealing?
Remember this is what God commanded his chosen people to do, even after he gave them these commandments.[/quote]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36g3auOm9HA]
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Pikachu It is, it all depends on how you view the things you read in said holy books, which can be any number of things. Just for an example, thou shall not kill but in certain settings it's entirely alright in the bible and most of it isn't justified in the least, most of the events being premeditated murder at best.
So when is it OK to kill and when is it not? I don't get anything objective about that.
So when is it OK to kill and when is it not? I don't get anything objective about that.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Pikachu He behaves in the bible as if he has an end goal to accomplish. It's because I see the bible as more of a political book full of dog whistles than an actual handed down morality tale. There's lots of evidence for other agendas in the bible rather than having it be solely about morality.
If it was based on morality it would be more like [b]Aesop's Fables[/b] which generally doesn't have a single origin agenda to it nor does it demand you worship it.
If it was based on morality it would be more like [b]Aesop's Fables[/b] which generally doesn't have a single origin agenda to it nor does it demand you worship it.