RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
October 27, 2016 at 7:50 am
(October 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Law comes from morality, at least philosophically speaking. When push comes to shove, I actually identify as a contractualist (as opposed to Kantian ethics). In a nutshell, something is a moral rule only if no one has a legitimate objection to it, with objections needing to address why/why not someone's wellbeing is being violated. This mode of thinking captures the essence of debate, in which a conclusion is assumed once no one has a reasonable objection left to say. And if there's no objections, then to my mind it seems like that particular rule makes for a good law - something to be upheld globally.
What moral doesn't come from the Bible? Awww.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
