Moral Absolutes

There are none. I don't know anyone who accepts or adheres to moral absolutes.

Lying. "Gramma you look great." "No, you don't look fat." "Yes, honey your solo sounded beautiful!"

Stealing. When someone's starving or their kids are starving...most of us wouldn't begrudge a single mother ripping off a store in desperate times.

Killing. Come on. We have self defense and justifiable homicide. Many of us support war.

The list goes on.

There are circumstances which make "bad" acts acceptable, necessary, sometimes morally imperative. Therefor the moral rules forbidding the acts are not absolute.

Most people who profess belief in the bible (and, I would guess, any other religious text) don't follow the laws therein contained to the letter. Everyone makes exceptions, allows for exigent circumstances. We interpret the laws and decide by various processes whether or not an act is "justified."

All this interpretation comes from our collective work as a community, whatever community we happen to live it. None of it comes from the bible or any religious text. The religious text just states the absolute law. We decide when it's acceptable, justifiable or necessary to break it. And laws that govern a society can be arrived at without the guidance of any religious text. In fact, in our society, the laws are made irrespective of religion.

So what use is a religious text as a moral guide?