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Originally Posted by zeek
Another reason why if you look at it only as a literal historical document and makes no sense. So where are you going to go for your morality and ethics?
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I would go to my "God-given" conscience and ask myself if it's wrong or right. Which choice has the least amount of suffering for people? Example: Christian behaviors that lead vast amounts of people to commit suicide must be wrong. Something interesting is that morality and ethics is subjective based on culture and historical context. I remember taking a philosophy class in college about the ethics of cannibalism- it grossed me out to read it but under certain cultures, it was acceptable.
Below is an article about high rates of suicide among LGBTQIA raised in Christian families, which is connected with the wrong biblical interpretation of homosexual relationships that many churches have today. These interpretations still resemble medieval perspectives about sex and do not take into account the evolution of the meaning of the word "sodomy" throughout centuries.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/tra...oundly-flawed/