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They have been deemed acceptable in many cultures throughout history. Lots of people even today still think they are acceptable. Which is why they still occur. Why are you having such a hard time understanding this? Every human being and human society decides for themselves what is "right" and...

Again, the point is that you are not God. So you have no idea what the future will bring or how we will decide to deal with it. Just as your opinions about when and why humanity "deserves to die out" are equally irrelevant to reality. I'm not saying you don't have a right to form your own...

We do, every time we decide to make war on those we deem to be a threat to humanity. Only from the fantasy that we humans can determine an absolute.

No, the best way to do that is to separate the abusers from the victims via prisons, work camps, and so on. When we allow the government to decide who needs "punished" and how badly we will then need someone to protect us from THEM. The same as when religions try to decide who needs to be...

Yes, and my point is that it is the greater good that determines what is "right and wrong" is a world where moral imperatives are not absolute. That is in the world we are living in.

Punishment for sin is God's purview. Not religion's, and not government's, and not yours (or mine). Government's job is to protect us from each other, not punish us for "wrong-doing". If in the course of administering that protection, it has to take a human life, then so be it. But it's not...

I was not intending to insult. I was hoping to stop this litany of silly questions. As I have already stated several times, now, the point is that WE DON'T KNOW how the future will play out. So we don't know what will be considered "a moral imperative" in the future. What we do know is that...

Yes, but "we" are not gods. And we don't know why God has not rid the world of these acts. We cannot see what God sees, or know what God knows. And yet some of us seem to want to presume that they do know, and then use that presumption as justification for forcing everyone else to comply. When...

In my last post, I wrote: "this text was authored by Me, God". Does this mean I have to accept it as true, now, because it has been written down? And keep in mind that we all know it was written down by a flawed and confused human. The problem is that we all know that flawed and confused humans...

Your lack of imagination doesn't negate the actual possibility. Perhaps we humans will stop reproducing the 'old fashioned way' in favor of some technological method. And then suddenly the tech doesn't work any more. But now no one wants to return to the 'old way'. The point is that we don't...

Even today killing our fellow humans is routinely deemed necessary for the future of humanity. Millions of them. And yet one rape makes humanity not worth saving in your eyes? The rape of a woman that refuses to offer her reproductive self to save the human species? You have some very strange...

Where did you see that "this text was authored by Me, God" quote? Because your interpretation of some vague poetic phrase isn't going to stand as the equivalent. Sorry.

They are all relative and subjective because of our limited human perspective.

The problem is that your beliefs and/or mine do not create the condition of an "absolute moral imperative". We may hold it as such, but we do not define or determine all that is, was, or ever could be.

God has not told me, nor indicated to me in any way, that He wrote the Bible. If He had, I surely would accept it as such. Instead, a few deeply flawed religious zealots have told me this, and then offered me no cause whatever to believe them. As they clearly are NOT God, gods, demigods, nor any...

Or by "those" did you mean love, forgiveness, kindness and generosity? Imagine a world where no one went hungry, or cold, or homeless, or in fear for their life, or their freedom, or children's lives and freedom. Imagine a world where everyone understood the value and importance of honesty and...

How could any of what? The question was how could rape be justified? And the answer is if circumstances were such that rape would be necessary to ensure the future of the species. Obviously that is not the case, now. But none of us knows what might happen in the future. And my point with this...

Welcome to the human condition. What if Jesus was in a spaceship hiding behind the Hale-Bopp Comet awaiting our arrival via a poisonous death, as the Heaven's Gate cult believed? And now we've all missed our ride to heaven? People believe whatever makes sense to them regardless of whether it...

Is it a sin for me to disagree with your view of the Bible and Christianity? Because it looks a lot like this is what you're thinking, here.

To save the future of humanity.