(May 17, 2023 at 4:42 pm)Kingpin Wrote: So what if what I want/think is the opposite of you. Am I wrong? Are you wrong? Does it matter?
That is why people discuss with each other following tenants of humanism, which are: that you can do whatever you want as long as it does not hurt others; and "Listen to your heart".
Thus today people marry for love, and it is their inner feelings that give value to this bond.
The same logic dominates current debates on homosexuality. If two adult men enjoy having sex with one another, and they don’t harm anyone while doing so, why should it be wrong, and why should we outlaw it? It is a private matter between these two men, and they are free to decide about it according to their inner feelings. In the Middle Ages, if two men confessed to a priest that they were in love with one another, and that they never felt so happy, their good feelings would not have changed the priest’s damning judgement.
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"
