(December 23, 2019 at 12:51 am)Belacqua Wrote: what are the best non-religious tools for us to talk about values and the good life?
They don't have to be best or good. For instance MPAA rating systems seem to take over what pulpits were once, so now people go to the movies to see what is appropriate and what is not.
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"
