The Bible is immoral.

First lets define morality. The term "morality" can be used either descriptively to refer to some codes of conduct put forward by a society or, some other group, such as a religion, or accepted by an individual for her own behavior or normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons. There are codes of conducts put forward by our society in the form of laws, which all citizens are subject to. We also have codes of conduct determined by organizations like religious groups towards its members and even criminal groups such as gangs and mafias. There may be conflicting code of conducts like when a gang has a "No snitching " policy and the law places a burden on citizens to report criminal activity. Another example is that a religious group may have a code of conduct such as how to dress, eat, and gender specific roles. I used the US judicial system as one of the ways to determine whether something can be seemed immoral or not. An example would be that if a religious group advocates multiple marriages, they would be in violation of anti bigamy laws. Our society has deemed plural marriages immoral and therefore illegal. In many religions sex is heavily regulated and is usually only accepted between opposite gender individuals who are married. so an individual who has sex outside of marriage is acting immoral according to that faith. Most members of our society do no consider sex between heterosexual adults if they are unmarried immoral and we are in the process of debating the rights for adults to marry same sex partners, In essence our moral compass is shifting in opinion to homosexuality and it is reflecting in the laws being proposes and court decisions we are being handed down. There are societies that are or have been primarily governed by laws dictating by a religion known as theocracies such as Sharia Law in some Islamic societies. http://en.wikipedia.org... My opponent and I agree that, "The Bible is absolutely an objective source of morality for those who are faithful to the Bible and Christianity." I further argue that our written laws are an objective consensus of our moral standards especially because they tend to change and reflect the values of our society. The bible is static but does lend itself to interpretation, and very few people live according strictly through theological principals. Our society is a blend of morals acquired form different sources which include democratic principles including secularism, British common law, religious dogma, and increasingly the scientific method. http://books.google.com... The argument I'm trying to make is that many of the rules proposed by the Christian bible are now deemed immoral by our society in general and our legal system in particular. One example would be the 10 commandments which are believed to be given by God himself to the tribes of Israel. http://www.godstenlaws.com... Our constitution does not favor any religion and could not adopt the first commandment of not allowing someone to worship Gods from non-Christian tradition. Another example is that we do not punish people for working on holidays, instead we punish people who would punish them. We do share the commandment that punishes those who bare false witness band murder but the others are not codified into law or run contrary to what we have agreed to. The Bible also prescribes stoning as a form of capital punishment which would be consider cruel and unusual punishment and some states banned capital punishment altogether. I'm not saying that any Christian would like to stone people but that is a punishment prescribed to those who break commandments and societal norms. I argue that American Christians would not like to live in a society that was ruled by strict Biblical interpretation. http://rationalwiki.org... http://www.11points.com... http://www.huffingtonpost.com... I also argue that punishments, restrictions, and obligations dictated by the Bible are viewed as immoral by the standards of our society that includes a Christian majority. There are some elements that are in accordance with our society and may have been the source or a source of our moral standards, but as a whole it advocates standards abandoned and rejected by our society.