@TomBuck The Bible hasn't even been sufficient to create a uniform Christian theology and keep Christians from killing each other! FFS man, be serious.
Genocide not only kills people. It also kills culture. russia is destroying millions of books because they teach a different worldview and are in Ukrainian. By reigniting this fire, russians are turning back the clocks 90 years, to an era forever condemned by history.
@VanderburghBill @ashleylaneuk @DJHammurabi1 I agree it objectively causes harm but how have we deduced that harm has 'moral' implications?
I mean, what even is 'Morality'? Is Morality objective in the sense that laws of physics are objective? Morality seems like an arbitrary and invented concept rooted in our biology.
@Joshua_Demi@jonsteingard I think it depends on whether basic beliefs are used as a means to a [falsifiable] end or if they are the end.
For example, in Science, assumptions are a means to testable ends. But in religion, faith or basic beliefs seem to be the end--only verified post-mortem.
@Joshua_Demi@jonsteingard A problem with faith/basic beliefs is that our gods do not have to be real for our faith in them to be real-- even false gods have true believers.
There's much more to say about Fox's conduct in 2020, but let's start with this--every form of misconduct that the Fox prime time hosts accuse the "mainstream media" of committing, they committed in such extreme form that the internal messages read like a form of self-parody.
It’s great to see Iran’s real representatives, whom not only care about Iran but also peaceful & effective cooperation within the region and beyond.
The backward mullahs who belong to stone age & the criminal IRGC are not our representatives.#MSC2023