I can imagine a man in the family of the Gershonites or the Merarites looking with envy at his Kohathite cousin carrying the ark or the golden altar of incense and wishing that he could carry something more significant than a curtain or a pole.
I am convinced that the benefit of gaining a fresh perspective on God’s word is worth the effort.
No one ever said that wisdom was easy. Godly wisdom involves maturity, self-control, and the fear of the Lord. If it was easy, everyone would be wise, but the world is full of rebels who daily oppose the Creator’s wisdom.
There are many ways to rationalize going toe-to-toe with strangers (or acquaintances) online who are stirring up trouble. Still, experience teaches us that these kinds of keyboard wars rarely end with anyone repenting of speaking falsehoods or admitting they were wrong about us or our position.
For Dawkins, the fact that a computer program might be conscious, is sufficient reason to act with caution in applying the ethics of personhood to a machine, but the fact that a human child is developing in his mother’s womb is not sufficient cause to apply personal ethics to him.