RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
April 9, 2023 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2023 at 3:31 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Maybe everything does come to self-interest. Like if you take a Muslim that goes on a suicidal bomb mission you would think he is doing Allah's will, but in the end, he is doing it for self-interest because he wants to go to paradise and get those 72 virgins.
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"
