RE: Morality without God
March 30, 2021 at 9:34 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2021 at 9:35 am by Fake Messiah.)
Morality is based on compassion for other people's feelings: you don't want to rape somebody because that person will suffer, or you don't want to torture a cat because you know it will suffer.
And if someone doesn't have compassion that person is a psychopath.
For example, there is an interesting scene in the movie "Borat" where Borat goes to a comedy coach whom he asks if it is ok to laugh at retarded people, and the coach tells him it is not because retarded people have families who suffer.
And if someone doesn't have compassion that person is a psychopath.
For example, there is an interesting scene in the movie "Borat" where Borat goes to a comedy coach whom he asks if it is ok to laugh at retarded people, and the coach tells him it is not because retarded people have families who suffer.
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"
