Why does sentience make something more worthy of respect?
Because the sentient creature feels entitled to it? That makes me feel less inclined to give it, not more.
Well if you feel it's appropriate in a debate to skip over everything in someones post but the first four words than how about I skip over yours entirely?
Much obliged
Exactly. Our lives are not our own.
That's not the truth.
We will be judged by our hearts, and that is all.
And God doesn't threaten anyone, The only people you hear that from are Atheists and fundamentalists.
He didn't have sex with them, He was raped.
My goodness you all complain about how people don't acknowledge male rape and here is a very obvious case of it and you're just going to victim blame because it suits your agenda?
Thats beyond despicable.
Because Lot saw the evil in Sodom and it...
So you don't consider yourself superior to ants then? You don't kill them whenever you please and swat away flies and eat cows and just do whatever you want because you're King of the Jungle, so to speak?
Might makes right. And as humans we've used our might so completely that we even get to...
Morality is subjective. And if you were King back then you would have done many things that today would have been considered morally reprehensible but back then were considered the norm.
I am not avoiding, I am making a point.
None of us have the moral high ground because there is no moral...
Genesis 6:5
"The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time"
I'm pretty sure that's on a whole other level than making a mistake in defence of your guests.
You have hurt people, it's not right to think lies don't hurt people. And maybe in your mind you're morally untouchable but what about in the minds of the people you've hurt? Maybe someone in high school you said something cruel too or maybe something unconcious you did that offended someone...
Agnostic, Buddhist, Animist, whatever you call yourself.
You advertise yourself as a heathen so I assumed Atheism since most polytheists don't appreciate the term
And morality is fickle, forever changing. If you were born in Kazakhstan you would find it morally acceptable to kidnap women and...