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thanks, i appreciate your taking the time to respond one thing i guess is that a lot of this comes from many thinkers and philosophers over the years, but what

thanks, i appreciate your taking the time to respond one thing i guess is that a lot of this comes from many thinkers and philosophers over the years, but what i guess i was more interested in was direct connections for example, "the idea of universal suffrage can be traced to book xx verse yy in the bible" or "gay rights can find support in the talmud xyz" etc... that kind of thing... i guess its not so clear-cut maybe?

TsiCClawOfLight 4y ago
It depends, some topics are explicit and others are implicit within a larger world view that you cannot really pick and choose parts from. It seems to me that that entire world view is the critical part, because otherwise any single biblical command can just be ignored anyway if we don't like it. At the end of the day, either we are all made in God's image and have God-given inalienable rights --- in which case the government has no right to take them away --- or morality is relative, and who's to say that Chinas approach to human rights is inferior to ours? Or that those pesky flat-earthers deserve not being in prison? And so on :) There is of course much morality that one can give chapter and verse for. This includes "big" things like murder and theft, and more subtle things like fair wages, due process and government for the people.