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those stories of atrocity ordered by god are traditionally interpreted as having to do with the primacy of faith/obedience over mere mortal/moral law.
if you believe in the god character, then what's at issue wouldn't really be moral relativism so much as the sovereign changing the rules. so god cannot be immoral. amoral because infinite more like.
but this is all silly unless you happen to be interested in working out the logic of fables like this. or in kierkegaard, who does a great job with this game in "fear and trembling"---but i digress.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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