Salandriagado wrote:Hakons wrote:
I have the vaguest sense of rational thought and I put supreme moral authority in the Bible.
Supreme authority and rational thought are entirely incompatible.Laws and regulations are regularly given supreme authority across all nations and societies. Bylaws and neighborhood codes regulate life every day, unchallenged. Even households have written rules that ate followed. People, across all societies and all histories, have written texts and followed them with zeal.
None of those are given anything resembling supreme authority. You can tell by how often we change said laws and so on.
Rational thought can lead to a conclusion that is supreme. Stop throwing absolutes at a wall and hoping they will stick.
If one breaks the law, they are held under the law. There is no if, ands, or buts. If it is clear they broke the law, then they suffer the consequence. This is authority.