RE: Stupid things religious people say
December 4, 2024 at 12:33 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2024 at 12:34 am by Fake Messiah.)
(December 4, 2024 at 12:26 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:(December 4, 2024 at 12:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: There is no value in forcing someone who is gravely ill to live in unbearable pain so much that he wants to die.
Perhaps, but it's not a matter of what value it is to us - rather that we respect what value it intrinsically holds.
"Put on life" was the wrong way of wording it I suppose; "Are given on life" would have been more theologically correct.
The intrinsic value of life is that you have to torture someone by condemning him to a life of unbearable pain against his will.
In other words, you are full of shit.
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"
