Of course it's idiotic but not without "explanation" for the The Moral Majority: Not to worry. If anything really puzzling happens, it is only necessary to remind everyone that merely human minds cannot expect to penetrate the deep, mysterious purposes of God. Except that the Moral Majority does it all the time, when they want to whip and harry the rest of us.
Think also about US and how "The Moral Majority" feels absolutely secure in being under the protection of an American Republican conservative God. Still—just the same—they favor a strong national defense. God will certainly destroy the Godless Muslims and other heathens, but he'll need a lot of very advanced bombers, missiles, and nuclear bombs to do it with. Scientists are perfectly moral people, to the Moral Majority, as long as they design sophisticated war weapons to control the population problem by raising the death rate—as opposed to any evil attempt they make to control it by lowering the birth rate.
Think also about US and how "The Moral Majority" feels absolutely secure in being under the protection of an American Republican conservative God. Still—just the same—they favor a strong national defense. God will certainly destroy the Godless Muslims and other heathens, but he'll need a lot of very advanced bombers, missiles, and nuclear bombs to do it with. Scientists are perfectly moral people, to the Moral Majority, as long as they design sophisticated war weapons to control the population problem by raising the death rate—as opposed to any evil attempt they make to control it by lowering the birth rate.
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"
