RE: Morality
May 23, 2023 at 7:39 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2023 at 7:40 am by Fake Messiah.)
(May 23, 2023 at 6:32 am)Belacqua Wrote: As always, this theological view of things is different from the popular view of God as sky-daddy giver of arbitrary law. I've been told on this forum that I'm not supposed to talk about the more intellectual view because supposedly all the evil Christians in America don't know it. But if Dante said it so clearly then I don't think it's wrong to say that it's genuinely Christian.
How is it different than a sky-daddy giver of arbitrary law when Dante put in Hell people for arbitrary things, like when he put Mohamed in hell just for being Muslim along with all the ancient Greek philosophers just because they were not Christians?
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"
