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To: Tom in SFCA

Yep, I also think he misplaces the source of some of our truths:

“The Hebrew Bible introduced the most revolutionary moral idea in history: that there are objective moral truths just as there are mathematical and scientific truths.”

The reality is this idea is from Plato, and Greek thought is another core pillar of Western Civilization that can’t be ignored.

The Hebrew Bible is almost the opposite: making clear there is one set of rules for Jews and another for everyone else.


8 posted on 02/14/2023 10:37:45 AM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: Renfrew
The Hebrew Bible is almost the opposite: making clear there is one set of rules for Jews and another for everyone else.

The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you. Exodus 12:49

You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 24:22

The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you. Numbers 15:16

11 posted on 02/14/2023 11:39:30 AM PST by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: Renfrew

Every society other the the post-modern western world believed in objective moral truths. They may have disagreed on what those truth are (although they were actually fairly similar) and where the objective truths came from.


12 posted on 02/14/2023 11:45:02 AM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: Renfrew
“The Hebrew Bible introduced the most revolutionary moral idea in history: that there are objective moral truths just as there are mathematical and scientific truths.” The reality is this idea is from Plato

Plato lived a mere three centuries befor Christ. The revelations from God to Moses and the Hebrews occurred thousands of years before Plato.

24 posted on 02/14/2023 6:38:27 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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