That’s because the more rational amongst us have stopped putting up with people killing other people on purely religious grounds.
Is apostasy still a crime punishable by death? It used to be. So was homosexuality.
Thousands of innocent women were tortured and some even burned at the stake for so-called religious “crimes”.
People were still killing each other for reasons they’d consider “rational” back then too… but getting rid of any reason for irrational killing is, I think, a step in the right direction—one brought about by rational, enlightenment thinking.
When we can get rid of the rationalised, non-religious reasons too, then we’ll really be onto something good.
That’s because the more rational amongst us have stopped putting up with people killing other people on purely religious grounds.
Is apostasy still a crime punishable by death? It used to be. So was homosexuality. Thousands of innocent women were tortured and some even burned at the stake for so-called religious “crimes”.
People were still killing each other for reasons they’d consider “rational” back then too… but getting rid of any reason for irrational killing is, I think, a step in the right direction—one brought about by rational, enlightenment thinking.
When we can get rid of the rationalised, non-religious reasons too, then we’ll really be onto something good.