Oblivious tweet of the day

Honestly, I marvel some days at Albert the Pious’ total obliviousness. He’s correct, so far as he goes, but he clearly doesn’t understand that the same is true of the moral code set out in the Ten Commandments and the New Testament.

All moral codes are no more than this: the common-sense consensus about the behaviors needful for the survival of the group or tribe. Thus, the first five of the Ten Commandments concern piety and worship, the indispensable elements of the Jewish tribe’s survival. Similarly, the 1^st-Century Christian cult, like contemporary cults all around the world, were adamant that the group came first and your spouse and children got the leftovers.

Some of the sharpest contemporary moral debates center upon the question, Who is my tribe? Thus, an abortion may be a very good thing for a family group that can’t afford a child or doesn’t wish to interrupt an education. But it’s a very bad thing for churches, because that’s somebody who won’t be around to help assure the persistence of the religion and its Holy Men.

The benchmark for all moral codes is the well-being and survival of the group, and the most painful moral disputes center upon the identity of the group whose well-being should be given priority.