RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
May 18, 2022 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2022 at 12:10 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(May 18, 2022 at 5:57 am)h311inac311 Wrote: My main question is what should we do to ensure that our children inherit good moral values? Also, how should we run society and education so that we can ensure that our communities don't fall apart?
The moral values of the West societies come from Humanism. The main philosophy or should I say the catchphrase of the west is "Follow your heart" and "You can be whoever you want" did not come from religions that demand submission of the individuals to the clergy.
And even the pioneers of Humanism like Spinoza, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, etc., were all persecuted by various Christian churches by having their books publicly burned by priests and put on the lists of forbidden books like the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. So don't worry, churches and clergy are the last places from which people of today can learn how to be civilized and/ or moral.
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"