RE: To the question of does God exist, the answer is whether Intelligence created Life
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 am
(September 21, 2025 at 8:52 am)panpan Wrote: Ethics is based on autonomy and non-harm of the autonomy of others. Even though every creature is forced to harm in order to survive, without wanting to harm itself, intelligent beings such as humans can limit this behavior based on morality, minimizing the harm they will cause to others and to the whole.
This puerile philosophizing doesn't explain how ethics is supposedly objective.
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"
