• Oniononon@sopuli.xyz
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    A human christian women let their newborn baby to die in the forest while her and her family fucked off to an impromptu trip. The baby was only found thanks to the dog barking and trying to bring attention to it.

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    If the first statement were true then Adam and Eve did not sin because they literally did not know right from wrong until eating the literal fruit of the knowledge of food and evil.

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        They literally did not know what they were doing was evil because they literally did not know right from wrong.

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        Yes, but they didn’t understand that not following God’s orders was bad. They weren’t capable of making moral decisions because they hadn’t eaten the fruit yet.

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          If you follow the story, it’s apparent that the end was engineered. And that the real villain was not the snake or adam nor eve but god itself

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    Yeah it’s bullshit. Pro-social animals like dogs, primates, elephants understand group norms and social expectations e.g. appeasement behaviour. Its probably how our own “morality” developed as a species.

    And there’s evidence to suggest some species like dolphins absolutely do exhibit moral type behaviour like fairness and cooperation.

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      Your examples, and honestly calling it bullshit, operate under your human understanding of right and wrong.

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    Right and wrong is one thing, sin is another. Sin is doing stuff that God says not to do, morality doesn’t really come into it. Cats can’t sin because they don’t have theistic religion.

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      Defying an authority figure is not a sin. What if it tells you to do something bad, like slit your sons throat and burn the body? Defining sin as questioning authority is BS.

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        That is precisely what differentiates sin from evil. It’s why we have two words for those two things. Abraham would not have sinned by killing Isaac as ordered. But it would have been an evil act, and stupid and insane

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      Cats are their own gods. Letting them see the bottom of their food bowl is a mortal sin and you will burn in kitty hell for it.

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      Evil is a human definition. I’m sure there have been tigers/bears/sharks/hippies that have gone on killing sprees that have been defined by humans as evil, though they were working well within their own natural framework of aggression.

      *I meant hippoes, not hippies, but the statement stands.

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      Homo Sapiens, subfamiliy homininae, suborder Haplorhini, is a animal too.

      Btw, chimpanzee wage war and crows bully in groups.

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      Cats are definitely evil. Adorably so, sure, yet evil nonetheless.

      Dolphins, too. Cruel, rapey bastards, the lot of them. Orcas in particular probably enjoy killing and hurting their prey almost as much as cats.

      Most birds are evil in a stupid birdbrained sort of way, even the smart ones. Should’ve gone extinct sixty-five million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs, the bastards.

      Chimpanzees are almost as creepily evil as humans (not bonobos, though; they just want to get along and fuck as much as possible).

      And then there’s us.