Here's one more thought: Capitalism is perhaps the best thing we have today, but that doesn’t mean it’s always going to be like that.
Maybe in the future people will have something else depending on the standard of living. I mean, look at the future in Star Trek TNG—they don’t have capitalism anymore because they don’t have a capital to speak of. They have replicators that make them whatever they want, so it’s something else that is can’t be named by us. And people could perhaps achieve something like that one day with nuclear fusion.
Maybe in the future people will have something else depending on the standard of living. I mean, look at the future in Star Trek TNG—they don’t have capitalism anymore because they don’t have a capital to speak of. They have replicators that make them whatever they want, so it’s something else that is can’t be named by us. And people could perhaps achieve something like that one day with nuclear fusion.
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"
