Harris argues that Christians do not look at the Bible in a wholistic way, but rather “[p]eople have been cherry-picking the Bible for millennia to justify their every impulse, moral and otherwise” (Harris 18). This issue specifically made me uncomfortable as I did not have an instant response to back up Christianity; frankly, it terrified me. Second, the topic of morality caught me. Harris argues Christians’ obsession of morality dominates the actual issue of human suffering. “At this very moment, millions of sentient people are suffering unimaginable physical and mental afflictions, in circumstances where the compassion of God is nowhere to be seen, and the compassion of human beings is often hobbled by preposterous ideas about sin and salvation” (Harris 37). This issue lies in ethics; STDs and stem cell research stand in the center of this issue. Is it morally right to give vaccinations and thereby encourage premarital sex in order to prevent the suffering or death that results from STDs? Is it morally right to prevent the use 150 cells, more than 100,000 less cells than in a fly, to bring
Harris argues that Christians do not look at the Bible in a wholistic way, but rather “[p]eople have been cherry-picking the Bible for millennia to justify their every impulse, moral and otherwise” (Harris 18). This issue specifically made me uncomfortable as I did not have an instant response to back up Christianity; frankly, it terrified me. Second, the topic of morality caught me. Harris argues Christians’ obsession of morality dominates the actual issue of human suffering. “At this very moment, millions of sentient people are suffering unimaginable physical and mental afflictions, in circumstances where the compassion of God is nowhere to be seen, and the compassion of human beings is often hobbled by preposterous ideas about sin and salvation” (Harris 37). This issue lies in ethics; STDs and stem cell research stand in the center of this issue. Is it morally right to give vaccinations and thereby encourage premarital sex in order to prevent the suffering or death that results from STDs? Is it morally right to prevent the use 150 cells, more than 100,000 less cells than in a fly, to bring