RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 14, 2023 at 3:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2023 at 3:04 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 14, 2023 at 2:44 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: , but this is confused. It's like saying, "if some believe the earth is a globe, yet others consider that it is flat" (like if killing is or was not considered a crime in some primitive civilizations, e.g. killing children by infanticide), therefore science and whether the earth is a globe or flat is entirely a matter of subjective opinion. Actually, it just means that some are objectively right (who believe murder is wrong), and others are objectively wrong (who believe its ok).
It is not, you are using a false comparison. And don't act so arrogant to call other societies primitive when Christian societies were no better. Pope Urban said that killing Muslims was an act of love and Christians believed him. Also, slavery, killing Jews, and public executions were all morally accepted Christian societies, but are not anymore in humanistic societies. Slavery was also something condoned by Jesus.
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"
