RE: Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position
March 12, 2020 at 12:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2020 at 12:21 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(March 12, 2020 at 12:07 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(March 12, 2020 at 10:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: That is exactly what Bible demands of its followers: to kill hemophilic infants by circumcising them.
How many millions of babies do you think have died because they were hemophilic and their parents circumcised them because it was a "moral" thing to do according to Bible?
That would be closer to a mistake than to rationalization, which is what our moral systems tend to do.
It was a mistake to listen to the Bible for morality. Indeed, morality is something that develops and fine tunes by society over time and it would certainly be a failure to listen what some ancient goat herders thought what would be moral for us in Bible, thousands of years ago.
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"
