(October 15, 2022 at 2:22 pm)Gentle_Idiot Wrote: Personally, I just read philosophy books and base my morality on them. They make more sense to me than the Bible.
How about you?
Bible, or any religion, does not give any moral guidance or morality. All that Bible does is say "don't do this because God does not want it", like "don't collect wood on Sabbath" or "don't eat shrimp", but it doesn't give any logical/ reasonable explanation as to why which is not morality but taboo.
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So people usually learn about morality from other people in society which is based on compassion and understanding of consequences. Like in the movie "Borat", Borat asks some guy " Should we go to a mental institution and laugh at retarded people?" the guy tells him "no" and gives him an explanation that those people have families who are suffering and would suffer even more (compassion).
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"
