re: A fact worth remembering: Those who don't believe in God argue against absolutes

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250 years ago, many heartfelt God fearing Christians owned slaves. They didn't consider themselves morally wrong owning salves. Now, I'd argue that all Christians probably say owning slaves is morally wrong.

So, if morality isn't a social construct and comes from God, why are these two takes so different? Were God's teachings about morality different back then?

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The Bible, the Old and New Testaments, offer implicit or explicit support for many things nearly unanimously agreed to be immoral in modern western society. Any American living by the strict moral standards and laws of the Bible would be guilty of numerous misdemeanor and felony offenses under our legal system and thrown in jail.

So the moral standards within the Bible are clearly not objective or universal truth.