(February 22, 2022 at 1:04 am)highdimensionman Wrote: This issue relates to a bigger issue in the history of evolution. How much Nature is due to behaviours and habit forming and how much is more internal and happening at cellular and sub cellular level. Thing is self conditioned evolution we have had more choice over compared to whats going on at the microscopic level and I have not found much in terms of science papers covering this issue.
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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"
