(March 22, 2025 at 11:34 am)Hippea Fly Guy Wrote:(March 22, 2025 at 10:45 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Democracy is not based on religious mores and ethics.Fair enough, share where it derives it's authority? There are no natural law parallels prohibitions or proscriptions for stealing, deception or killing these are all effective survival strategies rewarded in nature and anathema to democracy.
You are a human and presumably an atheist, why don't you ask your self why you aren't killing, robbing, and raping people? Is it maybe because of the sense of empathy?
People are also social beings, and once they began living in groups, they realized that there had to be some rules of behavior or there would be chaos.
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"
