TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
For thousands of years, The bible was used to justify slavery, wife-beating, condemning "witches" to death, denying women the vote, or even any position of power; it was used to justify wars, genocide, segregation, child abuse and the divine right of kings. I could go on and on.
The bible is currently being used to justify the bigotry against homosexuals in the US.
Time moves on and but some folks will always use that book to deny rights to others.
Always was. Always will be. Eventually, enough people see how ridiculous it is, and things change.
150 years ago, slavery was an established societal norm.
100 years ago, only allowing men to vote was an established societal norm.
50 years ago, segregation was an established societal norm.
And 50 years from now (or less) same-sex marriage will be an established societal norm.
That is something you can take to the bank.
If we have society to establish a norm!
The one thing you can take to the bank is what has been proven in the historical record. Once a society starts down the road of perversion and depravity it doesn't stop until it is totally destroyed. That you can take to the bank.
Huh, and here I thought the morality of owning another human being as a farm animal, then denying equality to generation upon generation of those people's children would be considered pretty perverse and depraved.
Yet here we are.
What was I thinking?
That's the entire problem. You were thinking.