It might be helpful to discuss Christianity in terms of morality, practical tools for living, and other more secular Don't try to debate the specifics of the Bible.
The morality of the tool and those who apply it are presumably irrelevant.
And here's to a president who can turn the bully pulpit around and address the world, turning morality and idealism into diplomatic tools of the best kind--the ones that inspire the best--and shame the worst--in us all.
Currently science is incapable of answering questions about the origins of morality, and there are not even tools to answer these sorts of questions.
Because in each situation, to protect the hierarchy, the white male patriarchy resorted to the last line of defense, the only tool employed when neither logic, morality, nor the law is on your side – the Bible.
Other species have been shown to have aspects of language, tool use, even the roots of morality.
The seed of morality, compassion, forgiveness and all the other positive tools we need can be planted during childhood.
Itard, a child of both the Enlightenment and the Revolution, dresses the boy properly, teaches him to use tools, and tries to awaken his soul to morality and affection.
We have taken supply-side availability into account in our scientific model, using the LiST tool to predict the impact of mass media campaigns on child morality in other settings.
In that case, morality plausibly asks us to make the best use possible of the objectionable tools we find at hand.
