I know - you indicated the opposite. Yet you implied that it should? I guess - hard to tell what you mean sometimes, you trip over yourself trying so hard to both prop up your position and attack mine with nothing of merit:
"and the fact that evolution does not command that we love our neighbor/avoid their subjugation."
You attack evolution for not doing so as, I guess, a way of defending your Law Giver for His double standards.
I provided my example re: slavery. It is empathy based.
Pretty simple - no Law Giver that employs double standards is needed, one just has to not be a selfish jerk.
Yes, you said that before. Which is weird since not only does your Holy Book indicate that slavery is fine, especially when the slaves are foreigners, but there are at least a couple bible experts on this thread justifying Jehovah's lackadaisical attitude toward slavery - because slavery was already a thing, so what can a Deity do?
Wow, I already wrote what I think in a post you already replied to - did you actually read it?
I wrote:
"Here is the simple basis for my morality re: slavery - I would not want to be a slave, therefore, I assume that other people would also not want people to be slaves. Thus, I am against slavery.
See? Simple - all it takes is a little empathy. If a person needs to be 'commanded' to be 'moral' (do as I say, not as I do), then that person, IMO, has no morals."
I guess you cannot be a moral person unless a tribal deity commands you to be?
Sad.
Non sequitur.
Empathy is not emotion.
And even if all I had WAS an emotional argument, how is that not a counter to the biblical double standards? Wherein we see NO condemnation of slavery AT ALL. In fact, the bible has RULES for slavery - and I know the "apologists" of the internet are busily lying to the sheeple out there about how the bible does not condone slavery, no, not at all - see the bible, they say, just has temporary indentured servitude! yeah, thats all, because thats the way it was back then. They cite Exodus - even though to get to the indentured servitude part, you have to ignore several passages about keeping foreign slaves and the like. So precious.
Cool how in your desperation to avoid admitting that your Law Giver is totally cool with life-long slavery - complete with nifty 'laws' that forgive masters whose slaves died 3 days after being beaten by them, you want to shift the burden to me to justify MY "double standards" for eating eggs???
My gosh - is that the best you can come up with in your defense of Jehovah's love of slavery? Me eating eggs?
You are funny in your sad desperation - see what your "faith" makes you do and write and act?
Great ok - I am a hypocrite for eating pork harvested from abused pigs.
Thus, who am I to point out that your Favorite Deity was totally cool with slavery..... Unimpeachable logic you have there...
Concession accepted again.
