discipulus Wrote:It advocates punishing people for instinctual thoughts?
That is not correct.
Sure it does. Our biological desire to reproduce is instinctual, yet you somehow think god is justified in punishing people for thinking lustful thoughts.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell