secular morality is superior to biblical morality

Let us look at this from a philosophic point of view, Your philosophy (a christian philosophy) is your worldview, Which is a backdrop for all thought and a context for all knowledge. Philosophy is not some arcane field important only to old men in ivory towers. It explicitly asks and answers fundamental, Inescapable questions such as "How can I know something? " and "What should I do? " Without some answer to these questions, No knowledge or action is possible. Again, The only choice is to explicitly examine the underlying assumptions involved or to be at the mercy of the random flotsam picked up throughout life. If one is going to ground morality in religion, One needs to choose among the many religions and their competing moral messages. All religions have many messages and practices"some peaceful, Some violent, And so on"and individuals choose among them to put together a personal religion that reflects the morality they already judge to be more or less good. That is, In my judgment, Is more morally healthy than those who accept wholesale a pre-existing religious package of beliefs uncritically. For example, The major Western religions incorporate the Bible, And much in that text is barbaric and written by and for barbaric peoples. The healthier individuals are those who pick and choose. The deist Thomas Jefferson is famous for literally cutting out only the passages in the Bible he approved of and pasting them into a separate notebook for his personal reference. Most people do the same, Only less systematically. One does not need to agree with all of their selections to respect that they are thinking for themselves and rejecting many immoral beliefs and practices required by the religious texts. That is an honorable path to moral development. The picking and choosing, Though, Means that morality comes before religion. One has a personal standard of morality first, And one then selects the religion that one independently judges fits best with it. Most all humans have this innate sense of morality. Ok, Lets say that the biblical god is real and the biblical claim that god is a perfect moral being is real. That would be one of the many moral contradictions that exist in the bible. Because the only way by which God can be a Morally perfect being is under the axioms of his own framework. For no moral compass can be Objective unless subject to, And the focus of the displayed definition of Morality itself. If we are to be lead by example, Then the biblical god is a bad example of morality. Most religious people including Christian believe their morality with certainty, This mind set can be dangerous if not deadly. With moral certainty a person can fly a plane into a building, Burn a witch alive, Stone a nonvirgin or kill atheists. The Christian philosophy is dogmatic, It can not be changed improved or question. There's an ongoing need to develop and refine our moral understanding. The problem is the false and morally corrupting idea that the lawmaker is perfect. It's corrupting because, In causing us to accept unjust laws, It leaves us defending the indefensible. We don't base morality on revelation from authority, That would render us merely obedient. Moral behaviour is doing what's right, Not what we're told unless what we're told is also what's right. Dogmatic moral beliefs are what they are " they can"t be corrected through thought and experience. The bible is an authoritarian rule book not a moral guide, Making "your" thought and experiences valueless. Morality needs critical thought and a continuing examination. We live in a continuously changing world with new kinds of moral problem being generated all the time and much harmful ignorance still to overcome. It's only through abandoning certain widespread religious ideas that progress towards a truly just and consistent morality is possible.