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Re:Religious Discrimination at Google by ars on Sunday June 12, 2022 @03:56AM (#31712545)
> Are you claiming that murder was totally accepted as normal before Moses got the Commandments?

Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide read the 4th paragraph.

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war which also traces its roots to religion. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law

I don't think you quite realize how much of modern morality traces itself to religious law. Maybe take a course in Philosophy.

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Re:Religious Discrimination at Google by hackyhacky on Sunday June 12, 2022 @04:12AM (#31712647)
> Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide read the 4th paragraph.

I asked about murder, not this particular special case. Furthermore, even from the paragraph that you cite, there is nothing explicitly connecting religious law with a prohibition of murder or infanticide. The article states the Christianity forbade infanticide, which I will note is about 1300 years AFTER Moses.

> I don't think you quite realize how much of modern morality traces itself to religious law. Maybe take a course in Philosophy.

Thanks for your unjustified condescension. Maybe you should read the articles that you cite?

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Re:Religious Discrimination at Google by peterashford on Sunday June 12, 2022 @04:18AM (#31712692)
As someone with a degree in Philosophy, I have no idea why you think doing a course in Philosophy would make you believe that religion was the basis of morality. There is plenty of philosophy which explicitly rejects that point of view.
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