They are amoral, some of them are nicer and better than others But they're not necessarily morally good or righteous.

他们是没有道德原则的，其中一些比另一些和善一点,但他们并没有道德上的美好和正直。

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So, Kaufman says that the pagan worldview is one of an amoral universe ; Not a moral universe; not an immoral universe; but an amoral universe. It is morally neutral.

因此据考夫曼所说，异教认为,既不是道德的宇宙，也不是不道德的宇宙;,而是与道德无关的宇宙，它从道德上中立。

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His argument for slavery was that ultimately it was amoral.

他提出的支持论据完全与道德无关

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There are many pro-slavery writers who developed, like James Henry Hammond, what I would call the cynical or amoral form of pro-slavery argument; and this is a potent form of argument when you think about it.

另外还有很多亲奴制的作家有一些,比如詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德,我称之为愤世嫉俗的,或不道德的亲奴制的论断,细想之下你们会发现这是一个很有力的论断

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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.

在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。

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