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To: AppyPappy
You need to make up your mind

Yet God is not in the morality business.

and

Morality is a pretty obvious thing. Don’t enslave people. Don’t murder people. Don’t treat people as being lower than you. Don’t lie in order to gain or hurt. Don’t cheat. Etc.

The second statement is pretty much straight from the 10 Commandments.

Which God gave to us.

And HE defined.

So I would say that God is all about "the morality business."

16 posted on 04/15/2019 8:21:51 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

The 10 Commandments don’t mention slavery or treating people as equals. Not only that, God’s law changes (see OT vs NT)


21 posted on 04/15/2019 8:26:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: ShadowAce

The Ten Commandments also says you should have no other gods before me. Yet our constitution states we have the freedom to choose any god or no god. So I would say that is a clear example of a morality being different than the law.

Years ago when I was a criminal justice major I was taught that laws can be broken into three main categories; laws against the person (murder, assault), crimes against property(bank robbery, embezzlement etc) and laws against morals (gambling, prostitution, drugs). I mostly agree with that delineation.


39 posted on 04/15/2019 9:24:06 AM PDT by OIFVeteran
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