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Moral law Mullenix, Dave Oct 17, 2006

From your review of Francis Collin's "The Language of God":

"He describes The Moral Law as 'the denunciation of oppression, murder, treachery, falsehood and the injunction of kindness (16), almsgiving (5), impartiality (15), and honesty (4)."

The existence of such a law would only surprise me if there was a group of people somewhere who enjoyed being oppressed, murdered, betrayed and lied to and who did not want to be treated with kindness, impartiality and honesty and maybe the occasional bit of alms.

Chesterton made the same error, as do many others who really should think this through.

Thanks for your blog,
Dave Mullenix

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Moral law Korthof, Gert Oct 22, 2006

Dave, thanks for your comment.
In arguing for the Moral Law present in all kind of holy texts, Collins overlooks the fact that *in practice* groups of people who subscribe to the same universal Moral Law (whether or not religious groups) are at war and kill each other.
The point is that Collins does not take into account what people *do*, but narrows his view to what people *say* or *believe* or *feel*.

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