Recent content by fschmidt

I didn't come here to debate, I came to see if Sikhism can provide a refuge from modern culture. And the answer is clearly no.

Regulation is not endorsement. Regulating tobacco, for example, isn't endorsing tobacco. At the time of the Old Testament, it wasn't practical to be against slavery, so the Old Testament just says nothing. Slavery wasn't eliminated by some moral movement, it was eliminated by the industrial...

Tejwant Singh, your interpretation of Leviticus 19:20-22 is so absurd as to be funny. Leviticus 19:20-22 says: “If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment. They are not to...

Any attribute has to be measured by someone. In my case, I was raised atheist and studied history to discover what kind of behavior correlates to rising cultures and to declining cultures. The Old Testament does an excellent job describing both. The moral principles it advocates are those...

The Old Testament never endorses slavery, it only regulates what was a universal practice at that time. I am quite used to these kinds of attacks on the Old Testament. One indication of how great the Old Testament is is that it is the most hated book by members of modern culture.

No. But remember that I view morality as tribal which means that morality says nothing about how to treat people outside your tribe. The Old Testament strongly limits slavery among Israelites by requiring that an Israelite "slave" is released after a limited time, meaning that this is more...

Moral is what is good for your tribe/culture/society in the long run. So being moral is largely about consideration for others in your tribe. Moral behavior can be best described as the exact opposite of the behavior of members of modern culture. Members of modern culture are inconsiderate...

Yes, this is what it is mostly about.

Judaism is racist by definition since it grants membership based on ancestry. An evil person with a jewish mother is a full member while a person who follows Old Testament but hasn't gone through the long conversion process is not. I actually know a lot about Judaism because I meet their...

I did in my initial post, using a word you asked me not to repeat. For a complete explanation of feminism, see: Sexual Utopia in Power

The Old Testament also views men and women equally (meaning of equal value but not the same). My wife is looking for exactly the same thing as I am. She wants to socialize with women and I want to socialize with men. But if Sikhi supports feminism, then obviously it isn't for us. And what...

I follow the Old Testament along with a few other people. We are looking for a refuge from modern culture which we consider to be evil. This is partly for our families. We do not want our children to grow up around evil, and we ourselves would like to associate with moral people. We do not...