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In reply to the discussion: How Oxford and Peter Singer drove me from atheism to Jesus [View all]Major Nikon
(36,899 posts)Our standard of ethics should always be subject to evaluation and change. The things society found acceptable and unacceptable 20 years ago are not the same things which apply today. 20 years from now there will be more changes. All of this happens because there's a discussion about what is right and what is wrong.
Now consider religious based standards of ethics.
God said this is wrong so you can't do it.
How do you know god said that?
The bible says so.
How do you know the bible is accurate?
Because the bible is the inerrant word of god.
So the "values" the author is really talking about are based on obvious circular "logic". Worse than that, they aren't subject to change, and the only discussion you are allowed to have must be based on a stone aged manuscript which was written anonymously.