RE: Why does science always upstage God?
October 12, 2021 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2021 at 7:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 12, 2021 at 6:19 am)pocaracas Wrote:(October 12, 2021 at 5:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Morality is something that changes with the needs of the people and comes with compassion - like the abolition of slavery. Morality should be democratic.
While when it comes to Christianity, morality is supposed to be unchanged from what some men wrote thousands of years ago in the Bible and claimed to have heard it from God. Which clearly does not work.
I don't know if democratic is the best way to go. I'd say organically, which shows how slow it does change.
In democratic countries, laws are made democratically, and doing anything that is not against the law is considered morality acceptable by the society.
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"
