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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-melania-upset-east-wing-demolition-b2862932.html
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·11 hours agoIf only truth was so easy to dismiss so we can follow our own selfish desires…
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours ago truth If your definition of truth includes religious texts in any capacity other than, perhaps, a very dated take on philosophy, then that’s a point we are simply not going to agree on.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·9 hours agoWhat do you mean by “dated take” - does right or wrong change with time?
minus-squareNeilBrü@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoThe morals of the Abrahamic Religions are the morals of blood-thirsty totalitarian pedophiles.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoYes. Yes it does. The bounds of what society considers acceptable or reprehensible changes with time, location, and culture.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours agoSo if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture.
minus-squareGojuRyu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoWhat would you say: is buying slaves from the nations that surround me still right, did god instruct people to do wrong or did right and wrong change?
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours agoGod never instructed people to buy slaves. Concessions were once made to an adulterous nation because of their hardened hearts.
If only truth was so easy to dismiss so we can follow our own selfish desires…
If your definition of truth includes religious texts in any capacity other than, perhaps, a very dated take on philosophy, then that’s a point we are simply not going to agree on.
What do you mean by “dated take” - does right or wrong change with time?
The morals of the Abrahamic Religions are the morals of blood-thirsty totalitarian pedophiles.
Proof?
Yes. Yes it does. The bounds of what society considers acceptable or reprehensible changes with time, location, and culture.
So if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture.
What would you say: is buying slaves from the nations that surround me still right, did god instruct people to do wrong or did right and wrong change?
God never instructed people to buy slaves. Concessions were once made to an adulterous nation because of their hardened hearts.