(November 12, 2022 at 4:04 pm)scamper Wrote: I'm serious, what is the point of
simply doing the right thing?
Humans are dependent on each other to survive, they need to cooperate, so that is why people are not simply killing each other.
(November 12, 2022 at 4:04 pm)scamper Wrote: Why can't we be like the animals?
We are like animals. Animals also cooperate, are good parents, sacrifice for each other, etc.
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"
