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It doesn't breathe until it's forced to. It doesn't feel pain until it has a sufficiently developed nervous system and brain to interpret the nerve signals as 'pain'. And we don't actually know when these occur fully enough to be considered this 'horrible suffering' that you are ascribing to a...

My answer is that your questions are irrelevant. It matters not at all to me which parts of the story (or of any story) are historically true and which parts are fictionalized embellishments. Because factuality is not why these stories are created, told, written, and saved for posterity. Like...

I'm not going to argue with your Bible-based fantasies. There's nothing to be gained by it. I stated that Moses is a character in a story. Which is evident and obvious to anyone that bothers to look up the story. How you choose to interpret the story is your own business.

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It's heartbreaking that you have so fully lost sight of that spirit within yourself that you now think it doesn't exist in anyone.

Look in the Bible, and find the story of the exodus, and the character in the story called "Moses". Yep, I'm sure. Moses is one of the characters in that story.

The problem is that the mitigating factors involved in determining what is "murder" play havoc on the absolutist's fantasy of there being 'right and wrong and nothing else'. When we begin to actually apply that over-simplistic absolutist nonsense to the real world, it falls apart rather quickly...

It is self-evident to anyone that bothers to consider it.

We are born with it. The ability to choose love, forgiveness, kindness, and generosity is always within us.

Moses is a character in a story.

The law is for those who are unable or unwilling to live by the spirit. They had the law. As they still do.

You cannot grasp that a fetus is not a baby. It becomes a baby at some point, but to you that's not comprehensible. Because right is right and wrong is wrong and you must be right. Nothing else matters.

On the other hand, ending a pregnancy before it becomes "a baby" isn't nearly so heinous. The problem with this obsession with self-righteousness is that it condemns everything that contradicts it, because it just can't allow itself to be wrong. Or even partly wrong. That is also 'insane'.

I don't know why they did those things. I suspect there were a lot of reasons, not the least of which was a genetic drive to dominate their fellow humans by the force of violence and viciousness. A genetic drive that exists in some people, even today.

You're really missing the point, here.

Love is far more than not lying, cheating or killing. And it certainly is not about being "right".

If you need laws and rules to tell you how to love your fellow humans, you clearly don't know how to love your fllow humans. All those laws and rules are for those who do not recognize God's spirit within them. For those who do, obedience and righteousness are no longer an issue. He came to...

These are all observations and characteristics that apply to pretty much all humans, though. I'm more interested in why a relatively small percentage of humans become obsessed with the idea of being 'righteous'. To the point where it trumps all other concerns in terms of importance and it...

There is an aspect to religiosity, though, that I cannot avoid, here. And that is that personalities are drawn to the religions and religiuos ideologies that enable them. That is most people choose the religious paths that justify and rationalize who they already are, as opposed to choosing a...

That possibility always exists. For any of us. But fearing the worst, in ignorance, doesn't seem like a very logical or effective way to live.