The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be hijacking of morality by religion.”
Arthur C Clarke
The main thesis of the old testaments is that the relationship between Cod and Human is as follow: Human fears and loves mighty God, but God has no obligation to his creation. In this God-centric universe desire to please God is a human main goal. It overrules all other considerations, like relationship with family, friend or with the rest of people.
The collection of God commands and wishes (interpreted or misinterpreted) - form the RELIGIONS VALUES.
In contrast, over the time, the human-centric views were developed. In these views the human relationship with other humans is the primary goal and everything else is secondary. The collections of human-centric values form the HUMAN MORAL VALUES.
In some cases the religion and moral values are overlapped but often are contradict to each others. The difference could be illustrated by the following examples.
1. Gen: Ch6 People are very wicked
“So the Lord said, ”I will kill men, whom I have created. I will remove them from the earth. I will kill men and animals and birds. I will kill that entire crawl on the ground. I am sorry that I made them.”
In the Bible commentary to this peace is said that “God is a judge. He removes things that are evil. But he loves everything that he has made. Especially, he loves people. He is very sad when he has to kill people”. - This is a LIE: God was sad not because he has to kill people, but because he made them. But it is OK to lie, as long you try to please God.
2. Gen: Ch22 God tests Abraham
God wanted to test Abraham's loyalty and order Abraham to kill his son. Abraham would follow these commands if angel would not stop him.
According to Religion Value you should have no second thought in following God’s command, even God will demand to kill your son or daughter or any innocent people.
According to Human Moral Value only criminal can test loyalty this way.
3. Due: CH 20:16, 17 Special rules for war
“You will take cities in the country that God is giving you. Then you must kill everything that is alive, people and animals. You must kill completely all the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perrizites, Hivites and Jebusites. The Lord your God has told you to do this.”
I see in this example the similarity with the previous one where God test Abraham loyalty. The main difference is that in this case an Angel didn’t stop the hand of the Israelis and mass murder was committed. However this is well within Religion Values.
According to Human Moral Value there was not known war criminal that comes even close to what was described in this chapter.
4. Jos: CH:2 Rahab helps two men of Israel
This prostitute saved her life and life of her family by betraying people of her nation.
She was rewarded for that, but all men and women, young and old people of her country were killed.
So, According to Religion Value doesn’t matter how low you failed as a human, doesn’t matter that you lied and betrayed your people that lead to their mass murder, as long you please mighty God.
Human Moral disgusts this behavior.
5. The book of Job
God want to proof to Satan that there is none like Job in the earth a perfect and an upright man. And of sake of argument, he destroyed Job’s life and killed his children and God with Satan had observed a result of this experiment.
Job was subjected by God to severe suffering, just to demonstrate to the Satan the loyalty of the true believers. Job pass the test, the church teaches us, and for that God fully reworded Job’s suffering by giving him more wealth and more kids that before. God didn’t return to Job his children, but according to Bible, wealth and good relationship with a God meant more than human lives. Job’s story is one of the fundamental of the Religion Value.
According to Human Moral, this type of experiment allowed only on microbes.
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