Blog Comment: Judeo-Christian Morality

Morals are relative to the current day and age. There are so many things in the Bible that quite simply are not morally acceptable today – slavery, suppression of women, killing of homosexuals, and child abuse to name only a few. If readers are to take anything from it, they are left to pick and choose the pieces that fit in today's moral boundaries. The problem is that the Bible does not provide a guideline for which is which – so what happens if somebody misinterprets the context and assumes one of the bad things to be good?

The bottom line is that, on any given moral dilemma, you can randomly sample people from all religions and find a consensus of what is right and what is wrong. That fact seems to indicate that humans have a moral intuition that is derived from something other than religion.

Source: http://atheistwager.blogspot.com/2007/06/judeo-christian-morality.html