RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
May 28, 2022 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2022 at 4:46 pm by Fake Messiah.)
It is hard for people to learn if they don't understand the problem/ what is going on. We today see inbreeding as immoral because we understand why it is wrong. In the past, people could only rely on taboos, some of which were built on wisdom but most on superstition.
But still, you have people who ignore the knowledge and go with their tradition of incest. Incest is still very much alive in Muslim societies which is why they have problems, but ignore them because they are theocratic and not humanistic.
But still, you have people who ignore the knowledge and go with their tradition of incest. Incest is still very much alive in Muslim societies which is why they have problems, but ignore them because they are theocratic and not humanistic.
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"
