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> Are you claiming that murder was totally accepted as normal before Moses got the Commandments? Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide https:/
by ars 4y ago
> Are you claiming that murder was totally accepted as normal before Moses got the Commandments?
Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide read the 4th paragraph.
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war which also traces its roots to religion. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law
I don't think you quite realize how much of modern morality traces itself to religious law. Maybe take a course in Philosophy.
- hackyhacky 4y ago> Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide read the 4th paragraph. I asked about murder, not this particular special case. Furthermore, even from the paragraph that you cite, there is nothing explicitly connecting religious law with a prohibition of murder or infanticide. The article states the Christianity forbade infanticide, which I will note is about 1300 years AFTER Moses. > I don't think you quite realize how much of modern morality traces itself to religious law. Maybe take a course in Philosophy. Thanks for your unjustified condescension. Maybe you should read the articles that you cite?
- peterashford 4y agoAs someone with a degree in Philosophy, I have no idea why you think doing a course in Philosophy would make you believe that religion was the basis of morality. There is plenty of philosophy which explicitly rejects that point of view.