Cain’s wife explanation “gross and disgusting”?
A reader’s comment
Thanks for writing, although it’s a tad off-topic. I can't cover everything in that article, and it was responding to a Christian. For what you are asking, the issues are explained in Bomb-building vs. the biblical foundation and What is ‘good’? Answering the Euthyphro Dilemma).
I would turn this question around and ask, why, under an evolutionary world view, should harming another be considered a bad thing? Isn’t Darwin’s “war of famine and death” about who harms something else before it is harmed by that something else? More specifically, two evos claimed that rape is a good evolutionary strategy to help men spread their genes, and one was tied in knots trying to explain why it was still ‘wrong’ (see Rape and evolution).
Also, why is slavery so wrong, given that some species of ants enslave others, as Darwin noted? Conversely, while slavery was ubiquitous, it was abolished only in the Christian world, led by people who would now be called the ‘religious right’ (see Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero).
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W. A., China, 12 June 2012
Hi, I have a very simple addition to make. time and time again this article says “x is bad because God said so.”
Seriously? Do you need God to tell you harming another is bad before you know it is? Does your God have to say incest is bad before you agree?
What kind of sentience is that?
None more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe to be free. If being a Christian involves being a slave mentally, I would take a different bus.