"an eye is the maximum you can take in retaliation"

That limit was to stop endless blood feuds. (The typo said blond feuds...)

Medieval monks lived so well that the obese monk became a stock figure - they just didn't eat red meat at times, just any other living thing such as dolphin, oysters, etc no way were they 'vegetarian'!

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I asked, given that morality is based on ideas of right and wrong, where an atheist gets morality.
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... which logically and semantically assumes the starting point that they can't (because they can't have those concepts), only the theists can (cause only they can have those concepts).

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your morality needs to go beyond its religious base
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Nope - you've got it back-asswards again. It doesn't need to go as far as a religious base.


"followers of Jesus' philosophy"

Sadly, he can't hold a patent on any such ideas - due to the principle of 'previous disclosure' in history ... :-) hence the statements about the 'arrogant ignorant smugness' of such self deluded professed followers...