(December 4, 2019 at 11:47 am)tackattack Wrote: C. The grantor's definition of what "respecting someone" means could also be flawed. If I respect some one so much that I'm willing to break my moral code then it's the wrong definition of respect.
But isn't that a vicious circle, considering that most (religious) people get their "moral code" from people they are supposed to respect?
And let's say a bishop or archbishop tells religious people to vote against gay marriage in some referendum and some religious people decide not to respect him, are they disrespecting him personally or the religious doctrine?
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"
