That would be awesome, thank you

I suppose it is true that societies over time develop normative standards for appropriate behaviour, and such standards are enforced through social disapproval towards those that don't follow the rules.

There is a big difference between reading the bible and taking what's good from it, and treating the bible as though it has authority. There's nothing wrong with the former, but I think the latter would

Yeah, sort of. It could be that in some cases the politically correct standard happens to be right, but the fact that something is politically incorrect doesn't in itself mean that it's wrong. I wouldn't

I was raised in a UK Baptist Church, but I never attached myself strongly to any particular denomination

Also

I quite agree that only a sick-minded individual would be okay with a 7 year old being sold as a sex-slave (or someone of any age for that matter). Any moral code that failed to recognise this as wrong

My contention is that since morality has to do with what we ought to do, there is no way to establish this using only facts about the way the world is. That's the is-ought distinction. However, I would

Thank you! Hopefully I will get around to writing more stuff like this