(September 29, 2023 at 4:54 am)Belacqua Wrote: At this point some kind of religion or non-material value system that makes the preservation of nature spiritually and ethically sacred would be a great improvement. Science isn't sufficient to do this.
There you go. You admit that religion and spirituality exist to manipulate people. The problem with creating a religion to preserve nature is that someone can easily create a religion for destroying nature to counterpart one for preserving nature since many people are interested in destroying it. Thus we would have another religious war between those religions that would then harm nature even more.
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"
