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They had no idea why people got sick and died.

Unless you saw someone stabbed with a spear, you had no idea why they died.

And in moral terms, with a few notable exceptions, most of these people were no wiser than your average Afghan warlord today.

The most had absolutely no notion that slavery was problematic.

That it was something morally unsavory about owning people and treating them like farm equipment.

Jesus and His apostles couldn't see that slavery was worth condemning.

In closing, I just want to suggest to you that just as we don't have Christian physics,

though the Christians invented physics, and we don't have Muslim algebra, though the Muslims invented algebra,

we at some point will not have Christian and Muslim morality.

The truth has to float free of these provincial ideas.

What remains for us to discover are all the facts that relate to genuine questions of human well-being.

And the goal clearly is to build a global civilization based on shared values.

Now, it seems to me the only tool we need to do that is honest and open inquiry.

And if faith is ever right about anything in this space, it's just right by accident.

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