RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 12:19 pm
(October 15, 2022 at 10:35 pm)Belacqua Wrote: We may have shed the religious justifications, but a lot of our morality is directly descended from religion.
Yeah, many people today get their morality from their religion, that is why they hate gays, beat women, have slaves, marry children, worship their leaders for whom they think were ordained by god, persecute people of other religions, blow themselves up as bombs, and do the female genital mutilations.
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"
