Warp wrote:
>   Let's approach it from yet another angle: Another commandment says
> that you must respect your parents. Yet if your father commits a horrible
> crime should you respect him or should you report it to the authorities?
> Even though the answer is the latter, that doesn't make the commandment
> any less relevant.

You're presuming that the answer is the latter, tho. How does one know? 
Is it because one's religion told you so? Or is it because one has been 
taught it's really the right thing, and then one adds non-existent 
exceptions to the rule to adjust the religion to match the existent 
morality?

If the latter, it's nonsensical to say that religious people are more 
moral or kinder or whatever than areligious people.

If you're going to take something as clear as most of the comandments 
are, and add interpretations and exceptions, then the religion stops 
having anything to do with it.

Just like if you're going to make excuses for God punishing the serpent 
and start up with things like "the serpent was really Satan"[*] then 
again the actual Bible has stopped having anything to do with the religion.


[*] That whole tree-of-knowledge bit was really one giant cock-up, 
showing just how evil JHVH really is, when you get down to it. 
Obedience, even if it means agreeing with the boss' lies, and eternal 
punishment on you and every one of your species for disobedience even 
when you didn't know better and the boss knows you didn't know better 
because he kept that from you. North Korea would be proud.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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