The contemporary British political philosopher Martin Cohen has offered the more historically telling example of Biblical injunctions in favor of torture and slavery as evidence of how religious injunctions follow political and social customs, rather than vice versa, but also noted that the same tendency seems to be true of supposedly dispassionate and objective philosophers.
Suvremeni britanski filozof Martin Cohen ponudio je više povijesnih primjera biblijskih zapovjedi u korist mučenja i ropstva kao dokaz da vjerske zapovjedi prate političke i društvene običaje, a ne obrnuto, ali je također primijetio da ista težnja naizgled vrijedi i za navodno nepristrane filozofe.