From Particles to Angels

This is the seventeenth article in the series From Particles to Angels . If you are interested in this article you should read the previous articles in the series in order, beginning with the first ( On Happiness ). Religion might be questioned from the point of view of its factuality; that is, whether it is true or not. For instance, was the universe created in just 7 days in the year 3761 BC at the end of what scientists call the "Stone Age", could Noah's ark really have contained two of each animal in the world (Genesis 6:19), or: who did the children of Adam and Eve marry (Genesis 4-5)? We might also question religion from the point of view of whether it is good or not. So far in these articles we have been mostly focusing on whether religion is true, on its plausibility. In this article we look at the morality of the Judeo-Christian Bible. Along the way we will consider some questions of morality in general. In the article on Suffering we considered God's culp