Logical proof that morality has nothing to do with the bible.
I had a conversation with a theist via e-mail, and his silly arguments about the bible inspired a reply which I paraphrase below because I think it’s such an obvious proof.
The bible contains plenty of depictions of people doing good, and plenty of depictions of God’s own people committing the most horrific crimes imaginable — often at God’s command. However, Christians do not do everything the bible commands. They claim that some of the bible is literal and some is figurative, or allegorical. They make the decisions as to what parts of the bible should be taken literally by their moral values.
So, the truth is that people of all religions and people of no religion all have the same concepts about right and wrong, which we get from our culture. These values have some variations in different parts of the world. For example, the way women are treated in some places, or the way animals are treated. So a Christian and an atheist who are both born and raised in the same place are going to have the same moral values as each other, and two Christians or two atheists born in different cultures will have the same values as the people who surround them, but not necessarily as each other.
Based upon these facts, it’s very clear that the bible is not the source of morality. It is simply a reflection of the values of the cultures which wrote it, and is limited by their understanding of the world, which was much smaller than ours in the modern age.
