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.
O filósofo político contemporáneo inglés Martin Cohen ofreceu o exemplo histórico do uso dos mandatos bíblicos en favor da tortura e a escravitude como evidencia de que as ordes relixiosas seguen os costumes políticos e sociais, e non ao revés; pero tamén observou que a mesma tendencia parece replicarse nos supostamente fríos e obxectivos filósofos.