RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
June 15, 2022 at 12:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2022 at 1:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 14, 2022 at 11:43 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: If you don't have a value or a purpose, beyond whatever you can imagine, then you will always have a weaker basis for morality and happiness.
Let's look at the first part:
"If you don't have a value or a purpose, beyond whatever you can imagine" - what does that even mean? Purpose beyond imagination.
(June 14, 2022 at 11:43 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: Anyone can be taken from you
what?
Anyway, you sound like you have a lot of prejudice towards atheists so you are just trying to come up with some excuse why that is, but you just sound drunk because it's all nonsense.
Christianity has a long tradition of prejudice that anyone who is not a Christian (and even the right denomination) is not moral, which is a dangerous delusion that caused Christians to do a lot of genocide throughout history toward non-Christians because they were seen as immoral monsters.
One manifestation of this mentality is the Inquisition and Mel Brooks portrayed this mentality very accurately in his movie when he is playing grand inquisitor Torquemada and singing:
We have a mission
To convert the Jews
We're gonna teach them Wrong from right!
We're gonna help them See the light!
And make an offer
That the Jews just can't refuse
https://youtu.be/LnF1OtP2Svk
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"
